US/ND-3: Content - text vs gui

Content - text vs gui

Ken Hammer (ken.hammer@ConnRiver.net)
Thu, 12 Sep 96 12:08:15 -0500


>Betty Hamilton, LRS    bhamilt@tenet.edu  said:
>I happen to enjoy text-only because I find it efficient for mail
>management and moderating educational discussion groups on Tenet.
>I also understand that text-only is not *glamourous* enough to get
>much attention from beginners.

I like that and feel that initial subsidies might be limited to text.
There is so much there that can be done with less system expense than
full graphic that there is reason to wonder whether the *glamour*
should be the attraction.  Let the real workers/users graduate to gui
for the stuff that benefits from it.

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