Re: Despair

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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:15:38 -0000, D. Melville wrote:

> Can anyone out there recommend a system which does not necessitate coming to
> terms with all this gobbledygook, wading through incomprehensible
> instructions and dealing with people who think that everyone is a computer
> geek like themselves??
> I am sorely tempted to throw it out of the window and use the local library
> facilities.
> I could not send this letter. I was instructed to check my news account
> configuration!!!!!!!!!!!!
> What's that????????
>
>
>
> I DID IT!!!!! Took me 30 mins though. This is far too time consuming

Unfortunately, computers are not toasters, which you just plug in and run.
They are more complicated than VCRs, if you have ever tried to program one
of those.

On top of that, SMTP/POP3/IMAP/NNTP are holdovers from the day when geeks
were the only ones who used computers. Despite the best efforts of
Microsoft, and ISPs, to make these contraptions simple to set up and use,
they are not simple to set up and use for people unfamiliar with the jargon
and the protocols.

I don't know how to change that.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
.

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