FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: [SPAM] Re: Setting up Arachne 193 :-((

["Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>]

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OK, Ray, no dumbing down........
We'll try not to talk down to you.  :-)
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Eric

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:54:53 -0800 "Ray Andrews" <randrews@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:
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> 
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:42:36 -0500 (EST), ewalt@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > IMHO there are *no* new users of any DOS programs anymore. Let's 
> not
> > delude ourselves. Anyone who is interested in using Arachne or any
> > DOS program for that matter is going to know something about DOS 
> and
> > paths--at least it seems like they should.
> 
> > Why would a "new user" stumble into DOS in the first place? Nobody
> > left but us "old and getting older users" I bet.
> 
> That's right Sam, the worlds remaining DOS users are so because they
> know it and like it, and most of them are experts or at least 
> basicaly competent. People who want someone else to do their 
> thinking 
> for them have long since gone to windows, so we don't need to design
> anything with that sort of person in mind. FWIW, I hope that anyone
> who doesn't know what a batch file is, or a path, will please *not*
> try my distro, I don't want to have to babysit. One can take this
> too far, of course, and become an elitist. I don't want that, but
> neither do I want things dumbed down below the level that is needed.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Ray Andrews
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