From: le@main.lekno.ws
radioacti...@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Marco,
>
> Again, thanks for your concern about this Google-abandonment looming next
month.
>
> But you should know: I just now read--or more precisely, TRIED to
read--your linked Thunderbird tutorial.
>
> It might as well have been in Mandarin, Tagalog or Thai. That is, I
understood many of the words, but virtually NONE of the concepts. And my
cyber-hip lady friend (elsewhere in the USA, so she can't train me) who warned
me that Thunderbird would be
WAY over my skill level seems to have been actually UNDERSTATING it.
>
> Look, I understand calculus, nuclear physics and advanced algebra, but never
getting a whit of training-after-sale for my Apple, this is ALL Greek to me.
(You don't know how much I envy people like yourself who are so well-trained
in cyber stuff that
this Thunderbird tutorial seems pretty simple to you.) Now, the Apple
saleslady DID assure me, "Hey, you're clearly a smart guy, and this is an
intuitively-designed computer, so you'll pick it up." That was seven years
ago, and she couldn't have been
more incorrect.
>
> Can't you or SOMEONE out there offer a simple (i.e., five steps or so, not
25 or so) process that DOESN'T require installing ANYTHING to simply
read-and-post re alt.obits? Again, I don't care a whit about other
newsgroups, but this one is HUGELY
important to me.
>
> Thanks for your response. (Send a private email, if you prefer, to:
RadioactiveSeattle["at"-sign symbol]Gmail.com
>
> Thanks again!
>
> BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
(I am of course grateful that ultimately this newsgroup has not been
deStybleized by Google's disengagement).
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