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Russ Hunt <[log in to unmask]>
Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:46:26 AST4ADT
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Sure.  Me too.

> MY first terminal was a 100baud TTY. I have been "on" the internet
> since before the WWW existed.  I find the command line to be my
> fastest interface,  with point & click being tedious.

But, you know, us old folks may be right to prefer command lines to
point & click, but we've lost (they may have won all the battles, but
we had all the good songs).  I'm desperately clinging to all my old
DOS and unix utilities, but in the environment I work in, and among
my students, it's rather like preferring standard transmissions
(which I also do, and pay a premium for) or card catalogues.  If
LSTOWN is aimed at helping all the list owners out there, I think we
ought to bear in mind that a decreasing minority of them prefer
command line . . .

                                  -- Russ
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