The preference for sending email commands to listserv makes a lot of
sense if you're used to command-line interfaces, and of course if
you have very marginal interest in the Web.  I still use line
commands when I'm online from home.  But I suspect an awful lot of
list owners are (a) much more comfortable with GUI interface and (b)
on the Web pretty much constantly, as I am from my office.

I'm struck by how often I myself do things in DOS rather than with
Windows, because it's what I'm used to.  My students, however, do not
share my DOS background, and want to drag & drop and point & click.
I wonder increasingly how much my commitment to command line
operations is really justified, and how much it's hanging on to the
good old fashioned hard ways when you had to _learn_ something to
operate a computer . . .

                                  -- Russ
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