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- From: system@coldbox.cojones.com (Bryan Lockwood)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Offline Readers
- Message-ID: <um55wB1w165w@coldbox.cojones.com>
- Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 17:55:17 AST
- References: <1icma8INNnse@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
- Organization: The Generation Gap
- Lines: 20
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- stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
-
- > Offline mail and news readers are a subset of what Waffle already does.
- > It makes no sense to go into the hardware store and refuse to buy a
- > prepackaged set of 8 screwdrivers because you only want one when both
- > cost the same amount.
-
- When the manual on how to use the packaged set of eight is 300 pages,
- requiring 10 hours of reading before use of the screwdrivers, it might make
- sense for the novice do-it-yourself guy to buy the one, simple screwdriver
- with the 10 page manual and 15 minutes of familiarization time.
-
- Like it or lump it, John, Waffle IS too complex for the ordinary "sometime
- user" to have to fool with. It may be worthwhile to may people to own one
- tool that does what they need it to do, rather than a big heavy toolbox full
- of unneeded tools.
-
- -Bryan Lockwood (system@cojones.com) (1@501 WWIVnet)
- "Into the trough of digital overkill I dove, raucously snorting
- and oinking."
-