From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wgreenhouse@riseup.net (W. Greenhouse) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's an even easier explanation how to setup gnus ... Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 21:26:04 +0000 Message-ID: <87r4d6x6dv.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> References: <5i61va9u7p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wqmzjvly.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378157308 7585 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2013 21:28:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 21:28:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 02 23:28:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VGbfg-0001Qf-DD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:28:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42199 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGbfg-0000vH-1G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 17:28:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGbfP-0000jL-Ac for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 17:28:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGbfI-0002rK-11 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 17:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47604) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGbfH-0002r4-Pk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 17:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VGbfG-0001EN-S4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:28:02 +0200 Original-Received: from tor19.anonymizer.ccc.de ([31.172.30.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:28:02 +0200 Original-Received: from wgreenhouse by tor19.anonymizer.ccc.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:28:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tor19.anonymizer.ccc.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:U7qSwaP6jOZT3C87NARk3AOkjSY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93204 Archived-At: Thorsten Jolitz writes: > Please don't feel compelled, I don't think that thread was meant so > seriously (including my post). But if you want to expose your > grandparents to the world of computers for the very first time, and you > love them more than you love RMS, maybe you should consider my anecdotal > evidence ... My grandmother (and presumably many people's grandparents) used computers for work, and they were command-line based with monochrome displays. Why assume that touchscreen GUIs are inherently intuitive? (Hint: the fact that they don't come with manuals is not evidence of this).