difficult e-mail?

[John Johnson]

Rich:  I, also, "am not impressed that the terminology became the issue."
But the rest of us are not mind-readers; and since we do not have direct
access to your mind we have to go by what you say.  If you use the wrong
term, it _does_ become an issue.  So be more careful!

As to the main point of the issue:  Pine was designed, and is generally
deemed to be, as "friendly" as possible.  Of course, there is an inherent
contradiction here:  "friendly" is often expected to be both powerful
(lots of choices) and simple (few choices).  And _any_ system that one is
familiar with tends to seem friendlier than any other system.  But
allowing for all that, I don't think you can point to any other e-mail
program that is more "friendly" than Pine.  (Can you?)

=== JJ =================================================================

On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Rich Littleton wrote:

> 
> Hold it, hold it.
> 
> Two Points
> 
> 1. The issue is not the name of the software.  I initially referred to
> Freeport E-mail and Pine as Unix=based programs (also, "Unix programs"). 
> I thought I was speaking analogously to calling pre-Windows Wordperfect a
> DOS program.  Apparently that is incorrect and you can run Freeport and
> Pine on other operating systems so it is incorrect to refer to either
> Freeport e-mail or Pine e-mail as "Unix-based" or "Unix programs". My
> apologies. 
> 
> 2. However, I'm not impressed that the terminology became the issue.  The
> issue under discussion when this came up was that Freeport and Pine (on
> whatever operating system they run on, I guess) are difficult for users. 
> 
> The library also thinks they are difficult for users.
> 
> 	a.	This affects potential SCN user loyalty.
> 	b.	This affects Seattle Public Library assessment of SCN's
> contribution.
> 
> Those are the issues.
> 
> Now, let's deal with these issues.  
> 
> Okay?
> 
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
> 
> 
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