Date:  Fri, 1 Sep 1995 08:29:09 -0700

From:  Dan Alford <dalford[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]S1.CSUHAYWARD.EDU>

Subject: Re: ADS-ANS deadline September 1



It's really too bad this comedy act posing as a thread was under such a

misleading title. I almost dumped them before reading! Bethany's is a

voice of sanity in an increasingly jargonized and polarized society --

and I used to do software tech support! It's little enough understood

that each computer domain becomes its own world ("PC" -- ambiguous enough

these days indeed, logically meaning just a personal computer but more

usually found in "what do you have, a PC or a Mac?"; those who are hooked

into networks, usually at work, have yet another terminological overlay;

some go thru a university but others thru commercial providers, etc.). I

say let's send the Bethany/Larry show on the road to perform at computer

faires!



On Thu, 31 Aug 1995, Bethany Dumas, UTK wrote:



> Thanks, Larry. Let me be sure I understand:

>

> I should find a program called UULite on something called a university

> file server, download it, then -- what/ How do I get the computer

> garbage I received INTO the thing that is going to decode it?

>

> I'm certain you computer literates are sick of reading how little I

> know about all this. But if someone can just help me get started ...

>

> Thanks,

> Bethany

>