WHAT difficult e-mail?

[Rich Littleton]

Okay, Okay.  Whew!  

That's a load.  But it's good info and relates to our discussion about our
e-mail options.

However, JJ's criptic comment was a response to the difficulty of our
e-mail.  Whatever the mix of softwares we employ to get the e-mail done,
the point is, it is difficult you use.  We should either switch to a
simpler result, or multiply our teaching effort by 10.

Thanks for the clarification, Brian.

Rich

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On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Brian K. High wrote:

> Sounds to me like jj is trying to impress upon people the point that others
> have tried to make clear in recent weeks as well ...
> 
> I guess you could say it more simply like this:
> 
> pico is a text editor
> pine is an email program that uses pico as a message editor
> unix is an operating system that pine and pico can be run on
> 
> pico and pine also can be run on Windows 3.1/95/98/NT
> 
> other programs can edit text and manage email
> other operating systems support email and text editors
> 
> Therefore, we can mix and match our text editors, email managing programs,
> and operating systems to get the best combination of what we want.
> 
> If we want to use the web to read our mail, we can do that with our current
> OS (Unix).  People would not need to even be aware that Unix is our OS.
> 
> If the user wants to use pine, they do not need to know we use unix, nor
> learn how to use unix.  However, unless they use the Windows version, they
> will not be able to use a mouse and will have to either dial into SCN or
> telnet into SCN to do that.
> 
> So it seems to me that we are sometimes confusing a text interface with unix
> ... pine with unix ... FreePort with unix ... pico with pine ... etc.
> 
> "A Rose by any other name ..."  :-)
> 
> --Brian
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Littleton <be718 at scn.org>
> To: John Johnson <jj at scn.org>
> Cc: em-trng at scn.org <em-trng at scn.org>; services at scn.org <services at scn.org>;
> scn at scn.org <scn at scn.org>
> Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 5:02 PM
> Subject: Re: WHAT difficult e-mail?
> 
> 
> >
> >I can't figure the meaning of this.  Would someone translate it into
> >normal?
> >
> >Rich
> >
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> >On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, John Johnson wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> And then we have the _ignorant_ "rascals" that keep getting Unix confused
> >> with e-mail.  The e-mail classes teach _e-mail_ (unless some instructors
> >> are doing major deviation from the syllabus), and there simply is no Unix
> >> involved.  None.
> >>
> >> === JJ =================================================================
> >>
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