[MUD-Dev] Re: Mud websites

J C Lawrence claw at under.engr.sgi.com
Mon Jun 22 16:07:31 CEST 1998


On Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:57:13 -0600 
Chris Gray<cg at ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA> wrote:

> [JCL:] [Browser based BBS/mail/news entry schemes]

>> Yet, quite obviously, people do use them, and do post messages with
>> them.  <boggle>
>> 
>> Perhaps there's a trick?

> Perhaps just having lots of patience and not every having known
> anything better?

I was so bold as to ask several users of Utne's web boards.  Two also
reported them as painful to use, but justified by the friends and
contacts they'd made there.  Four had never used anything else and
considered email to be "difficult and confusing".

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