Pine controversy

[Rich Littleton]

Joe is correct:  Just because the Great Satan (Microsoft) is nearly
omnipresent, we are not guilty of being a Microsoft acholyte organization
because we want a user-friendly system. 

Look at it from the point of view of the user:  What works for him/her?  

Perhaps, just as we have Freeport e-mail AND Pine e-mail, perhaps we can
have Freeport & Pine, AND a user-friendly program.  If the user-friendly
one can be text, that is fine.  If not, then we should look at graphical
ones.

The ease with which we old-timers used Pine is not the way to measure
user-friendliness.

Later,

rich

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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Joe Mabel wrote:

> Our goal is certainly not _exclusively_ to help Windows people, but that is getting to mean
> 1) users at the public library
> 2) 90% of anyone who has a personal computer.
> 
> If those don't intersect with whom we are trying to support, I'm ready to resign.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lois Beedle [SMTP:ljbeedle at scn.org]
> Sent:	Monday, September 28, 1998 8:41 AM
> To:	Joe Mabel
> Cc:	'Kurt Cockrum'; scn at scn.org
> Subject:	RE: Pine controversy
> 
> My two cents since this is going on forever.  I don't have a problem with
> PINE.  Use it quite nicely.  Cut and paste just fine and even add
> attachments sometimes.  A little more work than some other browers and
> IP's to add attachments but it works.  And it works no matter what kind of
> computer you have, which I thought was our goal.  If our goal is to help
> windows people then guess I am in the wrong place.
> Lois 
> 
> The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
> 
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