-> -=> Quoting Ruben Figueroa to Roger Shays on 08-05-08  16:28 <=-

->  RF> Modems maybe archaic but I still have very regular users who connect
->  RF> that way.  Most of them are elderly and for some reason prefer it than
->  RF> a web/internet connection.
->  
-> Which really makes sense... while some are quite able to learn lots of
-> new things, others can manage a few "magic spells" and once they have
-> those, it's hard to learn a lot more...  I'm not exactly elderly, but
-> I'm not all that young, either... and for me, I didn't learn how to
-> telnet until I absolutely needed to learn it, in order to reach any bbs
-> that had my Fido echoes...  ;0  If I had had access to a local dial-up
-> connection, I would gladly have stayed with dial up.  Fortunately I have
-> a very good resident Wizard to set up new stuff for me and to teach me
-> enough of the magic to be able to use it... I have known quite a few for
-> whom the learning curve would have been too much, though.

-> ttyl      neb

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Well, I am glad I finally logged back in here, been a while.  Yes I
agree with your comments.  Not that some users are elderly but computer
users in general get to know one way and it is difficult to adjust.

My modem recently gave my users some problems and I was surprised at
the number of them who sent email via the web asking me to check into
it.

go figure, they can use web but not telnet.  Well I got it up and
running again and my dial up users are happy again.
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