Subject: Re: Address Change Advisory From: mhoye@prince.carleton.ca (Michael Hoye) Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan NNTP-Posting-Host: prince.carleton.ca In article , SteveBob wrote: >"Michael Hoye" wrote in message >news:9gajoi$pvt$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca... >> In article <5U_V6.166905$p33.3516750@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>, >> SteveBob wrote: >> >> [trim a ton of stuff, leading up to this.] >> >> >I really think that the average user is not interested in having a >> >choice, and would, in fact, thank you for sparing him from having >> >to make that choice. >> >> Wow. >> >> I'm sorry, but at this point I have nothing else to offer. > >You don't spend much time around average users, do you? Giggle. Would that it were true. Steve, I do tech-support, that bottom-of-the-barrel phone-in kind, for the largest ISP in Canada. Let me tell you what I have learned in my time there, summed up in a few simple bullet points. - 95/98/Me are broken in the box, - 95 is strangely, the most reliable of the lot. - "Active Desktop" confuses the fuck out of everybody who turns it on. - 98se is a fool's game. - Mac users call us occasionally call us for setup problems. After that, they never, ever call us again. - Linux users ask us where they can get PPPoE software, and call us back to let us know about our own network problems. - Windows 2000 users come in two breeds. People who call us exactly once, and people who whine incessantly that their expensive shiny toy doesn't go vroomvroom. - People with home LANs also fit that description. - NT users are a morose and unhappy lot. Expecially those NT users who insist that, even though they brought this machine from the office and can't log in as administrator, insist that we should help them configure their system Just Like They Like It Like. If users didn't like choice, my life would be a simple, idyllic one. -- Mike Hoye