Fascinatingā On Jun 30, 2017 9:07 AM, "TN Patriot" <irgu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:05:03 -0400 > James Knott <james.kn...@rogers.com> wrote: > > > On 06/30/2017 03:10 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > > See http://s.apache.org/genuine-openoffice since it likely applies to > > > your case. > > > > Perhaps that link, along with a brief message, should be included in the > > list sig. > > > > > > A sig wouldn't matter or help. Clearly >95% of the people who use e-mail > haven't a clue what they're doing and refuse to learn more than is > necessary > to type their message and hit send. Anything else makes that one synapse > happening in their skull hurt immensely. > > Perfect examples...my 79 year old mother. She thinks she's smarter than > most > anyone on the planet and will literally tell you so. Yet when I tell her > how > to use her e-mail program (the one that comes bundled with > SeaMonkey...I've > got her using Linux for the past 5 years) 'better', she complains that > she's > too old to remember anything like that yet will turn around ten minutes > later > and tell me how I should fix someones setup to a new printer - when I > ask her > how I should do it I get a blank stare and crickets chirping and I nod > my head > and ignore her. > > My best friend who is 47, refuses to learn how to use an e-mail client > at all, > claiming it's too complicated and will instead just do everything > through the > google website client for his account. He too though is the kind who > will tell > you all kinds of things that he'll get PO'd at you for doubting him about > until you show him proof he's wrong...just don't ever expect an apology > from > either of the two examples I just mentioned. > > It's sad and disheartening. Years ago when it was Microslop 2000 and > older > OS's on most systems, I was the person in my town who made housecalls to > fix > peoples' computers. I can honestly say that in the 3 years I did that, I > swear > by all the gods, that at *least* 75% of the people that I called > 'customers' > should not have owned a computer at all, ever. I had over 300 > 'customers', so > do the math. > > > > -- > Huh, funny how Homeland Security rhymes with Gestapo. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
