-=> Quoting Mike Roberts to Nancy Backus on 03-17-09  13:45 <=-

 NB>> to do email.  Telnet requires a different program... and when I've
 NB>> been traveling, and wantto telnet in to my bbses to check to see if I
 NB>> have messages, I can't always find a program on someone else's
 NB>> computer to do it... and sometimes, when I explain what it is, all I
 NB>> get is very blank stares, even from otherwise rather
 NB>> computer-knowledgable people...

 MR> Ahhh Welcome to the Club!!! ;-)   I know the stare, very similar to
 MR> the deer  in the headlights look! 8-)  You see if they can't find a

Or the totally blank "haven't a clue what you are talking about" stare.

 MR> value in it, it  means nothing to them. "Why try that? I do all I want
 MR> to  do with computers  now." It's not like shame on them, in some cases
 MR> it is really too bad for  them. What they do is understandable, but not
 MR> always smart. 

Oh, I know....  The other aspect, of course, is that one tends to know
mostly about things one is actually using... and if one doesn't know
what something is for it's unlikely that they begin to use it.  Not too
many people even know what a bbs is nowadays... even some of my family,
to whom I've been talking about my bbs'ing for years, somehow can't
remember what I'm talking about and I have to explain it just about
every time...  oh, well...  

ttyl     neb

... Of course I'm on topic... Which echo is this anyway?

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