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- From: rlk@VisiCom.COM (Bob Kitzberger)
- Newsgroups: news.software.nn
- Subject: Re: Why is NN so common?
- Keywords: poor design
- Message-ID: <rlk.721087450@amstel>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 22:04:10 GMT
- References: <BxAuIy.4qJ@ie.utoronto.ca>
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- green@ie.utoronto.ca (Marc Green) writes:
-
- >'ve recent switched to a machine that uses nn and am stunned at what poorly
- >designed piece of software it is. It violates just about every human factors
- >principle in software design (consistency, dialog closure, smooth error
- >handling, etc). And of course, the documentation is a joke.
-
- It provides something that nearly all of the other newsreaders don't provide:
- visual sorting and selection of articles on a per-subject basis.
-
- Also, for people that like to snag things from comp.binaries.*, there
- is a great unshar utility built-in.
-
- These two features, for me, are important enough to get me to consistently
- use nn, despite the bizarre commands (actually, no more bizarre than
- vi or other Unix-isms).
-
- .Bob.
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