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To: nopardons
I can sympathize with your concerns about WebTV. It come as somwhat of a surprise to the techno-snobs on this thread how many solid, hard-core salt-of-the-earth FReepers use WebTV to access this forum.

I often do.

Also, the snide comments by the "read the manual" folks here remind me of the story about the man who just bought a new suit.

On his way home, he notice that one sleeve was longer than the other, so he went back to the store to express his concern. The salesman said, "No problem. What you need to do is hunch your shoulder up a little on that side, and the sleeves will line up."

Sure enough, that solved the problem, and he started back home, until he discovered that one of the pant legs was longer than the other. Back at the store, the ever-helpful salesman said, "Here's what you need to do. Just shift your hips a little bit as you walk, and the pant legs will line up properly."

That advice seemed to work, too, so he started for home AGAIN, only to find that the collar of his new suit would not stay down, so back he went.

Naturally, the suit salesman had the answer. "What you need to do is lean your head to that side, and it will hold the collar in place," he siad.

So off went the owner of the new suit, shuffling down the street, with one shoulder hitched up to straighten out the sleeves, one hip higher than the other to adjust the pant legs, and his head bent down to keep his collar in place - when he was passed my two women coming the other way down the street past him.

"Aw, look at the poor cripple," said the one woman.

"Yes, replied the other, "but LOOK HOW WELL HIS SUIT FITS HIM!!!"

I feel a little like the guy with the new suit. Seems like designing a USER-FRIENDLY interface would be preferable to teaching the old-timers how to "work around" significant design defects. Sorry, JohnRob.
1,024 posted on 03/30/2002 11:01:29 PM PST by RonDog
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To: RonDog
Thank you, thank you , so much, for your kind words, and the VERY funny story . Both helped greatly ! I have been lambasted , for being a " webbie ", by the computer elitists and it's sad that that's they way they feel.

I've been here for a rather long while, brought in qa large number of memnbers, through the years, supported this site, and have helped many other " webbies " learn how to navigate and contribute.

From what I have seen, many computer people, are also having a problem with the loading speed. They weren't told to get a better ISP , nor denigrated for their method of accessing FR.

While the " tweakings " and fixings are , thus far, a big improvement, and I thank John Robinson for that, if no one had complained, nothing would have been done.

1,027 posted on 03/30/2002 11:22:16 PM PST by nopardons
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