> > Very difficult when you are trying to teach someone to use the mouse.
> > "No, click the YES button". I used to teach more advanced users that
> > they could check their webmail from "card catalog" machines, but,
> > alas, those days are gone, or I need to move to St. Paul.
>
> Funny, I always considered people using the card catalog machines to read
> e-mail "less advanced" (on an evolutionary scale), but that's because I
> only notice them when I really need to use the catalog!  Doesn't matter --
> I usually look stuff up in the catalog before I leave home anyway.


Yeah, but most of those people don't have a machine a home. At least with
the new system, you don't have to sign up to use the machines, you just go
to an open machine and login with your card. They have to keep track of how
many use the machines because that helps determine funding, etc.


~j