[SWLUG] Intro

[Telsa Gwynne]

Ar Llu, Gor 27 2009, 09:17:49 +0100, ysgrifennodd Steve Hill:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> > This is something that regularly puzzles me, too, but I am biassed
> > by not having used it other than feeding things through the spell-
> > checker at university.
> 
> I think it's a "what you're used to" thing - trying something new is hard 
> and most people don't have the patience / attention span to get over the 
> initial learning curve.

Being serious now, I agree entirely, and I am part of that "most
people". I just came from the opposite direction. At the time I met
Unix, Windows just wasn't around. PCs were clunky and expensive, 
and the personal computers at the time tended to be Archimedes or
Amigas. As we progressed from scavenged ancient Cifer boxes to early 
Linux versions at home, Windows was starting to dominate, but I never 
noticed.

And now I am back at university and the university expects me to use
the Windows machines and I must confess that I have learned the bare
minimum I need to know in order to get my stuff through the spell-
checker. So I am exactly the same. 

The Windows email stuff baffles me though, and I can now see how 
so many people fall for scams and tricks. On Outlook, I cannot see 
the actual email addresses I am sending to, just some personal name 
in quote marks. I don't even know if they are in the university or 
not. And I can't tell anything about who really sent me a given email.
Perhaps some of the graphical Linux email clients mimic this - I 
don't know - but on all the Unix text mailers I have ever seen 
since mail(1), you get much more information about where things 
are going and where they came from in the first place. So I thought
all mail clients did that, and Outlook was a bit of a shock in
that respect!

Telsa