Please make a help page (Was: Re: Parents/Grandparents Class...)

[Rod Clark]

Randy Groves wrote:
> ... It would be a great service to the students if we covered
> the different types of e-mail available and discussed the
> positives and negatives of each.

Randy, 

   It would be a service to all the users if you'd put it on a
help page. There's no e-mail help section on the Web site's Help
menu, and much of the material on the Freeport help menu that
you see when you pick 2. on the main Freeport menu is an
embarrassment to SCN. There's no link there to to any
information about Pine or POP mail, or to the help files on the
Web site.

   The former Freeport help menu could be integrated with the
current Help menu (in HTML, not Freeport coding), so that all of
the help files are reachable from one Help menu.

   As a start, you could copy this excellent introduction to SCN
e-mail onto a page in /web.root/help, surrounded by the usual
header and footer navigation stuff. The e-mail training people
then might be able to follow up by publishing their printed
materials or class notes as Web pages, or even as plain text
files, so that everyone can benefit from them.

Rod Clark

> ... SCN e-mail accounts still provide, if not the BEST of both
> worlds, at least a very good way to be able to utilize both
> worlds. The fact that you can get to SCN mail via POP makes it
> possible for people to use the Netscape and Explorer GUI in
> the library to read their mail. They can also use the Hotmail
> reader to get their SCN mail. And they also have the
> possibility of being able to dial in directly if they are not
> able to access these type of terminals. Juno is probably the
> most restrictive of the three, since you are restricted to
> using the Juno software, they don't have versions for the Mac,
> and the numbers for local calling are limited, if you do not
> live in the metropolitan area.
> 
> One other advantage that SCN accounts have over both the
> others is that you can forward your mail to another account if
> you need to or so choose.


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