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<LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI>
<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Mud websites</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Chris Gray <<A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:18:38 -0600</LI>
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[J C Lawrence:]
>I was so bold as to ask several users of Utne's web boards. Two also
>reported them as painful to use, but justified by the friends and
>contacts they'd made there. Four had never used anything else and
>considered email to be "difficult and confusing".
I think we are in a time of transition, from the basic text interface
to something with more capabilities. I can only hope the tool builders
keep the poor user firmly in mind, however. There is a discussion
going on in 'comp.arch' (computer architecture) right now about whether
news articles should be in HTML or not. I tried newsreading in
Netscape for a while (very spammy groups, but with lots of pictures),
and found it very dissatisfying - automatic stuff just about drove
me crazy - I got real tired of clicking 'cancel' on the requests about
sending email to commercial sites! I'll stick to 'gnus' inside Gnu
emacs, where everything works with a keystroke. Similarly, I'll stick
to a simple text-only email interface that I can understand, and which
presents the text in a font and colours that *I* have chosen for
readability.
This same issue is present for bulletin boards in MUDs - do you want
to force the reader to read in a format that they haven't chosen? As a
user, I'd say "please don't".
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Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01175" HREF="msg01175.html">[MUD-Dev] WWW/INN/news systems (Was: Re: mud websites)</A></strong>,
Petri Virkkula <a href="mailto:pvirkkul#cc,hut.fi">pvirkkul#cc,hut.fi</a>, Tue 23 Jun 1998, 06:58 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00992" HREF="msg00992.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Mud websites</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Fri 12 Jun 1998, 14:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01166" HREF="msg01166.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Mud websites</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Mon 22 Jun 1998, 23:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01104" HREF="msg01104.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Mud websites</A></strong>,
Travis S. Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</a>, Wed 17 Jun 1998, 12:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01176" HREF="msg01176.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Mud websites</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 23 Jun 1998, 14:20 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01203" HREF="msg01203.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: mud websites</A></strong>,
Scatter <a href="mailto:scatter#thevortex,com">scatter#thevortex,com</a>, Thu 25 Jun 1998, 08:27 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01204" HREF="msg01204.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: mud websites</A></strong>,
Scatter <a href="mailto:scatter#thevortex,com">scatter#thevortex,com</a>, Thu 25 Jun 1998, 08:32 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00909" HREF="msg00909.html">[MUD-Dev] Mud websites</A></strong>,
Greg Munt <a href="mailto:greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk">greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk</a>, Tue 09 Jun 1998, 17:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00912" HREF="msg00912.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Mud websites</A></strong>,
Holly Sommer <a href="mailto:hsommer#micro,ti.com">hsommer#micro,ti.com</a>, Tue 09 Jun 1998, 17:54 GMT
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