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- From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
- Newsgroups: news.software.nn
- Subject: Re: Why is NN so common?
- Keywords: poor design
- Message-ID: <thurlow.721160708@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 18:25:08 GMT
- References: <BxAuIy.4qJ@ie.utoronto.ca>
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- In <BxAuIy.4qJ@ie.utoronto.ca> 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.
-
- >Why is this damned thing so common?
-
- Because it allows people like me to plow through the news faster than
- ay other alternative, reading only what I reach for rather than anything
- left after I go to the work of throwing it away. There are things that
- suck, but trn sucks harder.
-
- Please feel free to write another front end, or even another complete
- newsreader, or to detail what is so catastrophically broken about 'nn',
- or to just quietly go find another newsreader. I'd react a little
- better if you gave any facts to back up your criticisms.
-
- Rob T
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- Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
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