Thomas Yan said: > Rick Castello <rick at 404.978.org> writes: >> or (gasp!) learn/remember the way the list works. > > I think this is about equally incorrect and unhelpful as saying people > who can't spell are stupid. This seems to me to be part of the > attitude that if people have trouble using software, it's because > people are stupid or too lazy to read the manual, rather than because > the user-interface sucks. Not at all. It's a simple matter of being able to function in an environment. If you're used to driving a car in a right-hand drive country, and you go to a country where their cars and roads are designed for driving on the other side, is the bystander who reminds you of the way things work and suggests you remember them actually calling you stupid and being incorrect and unhelpful? You are perfectly able to petition the governing body of a thing (any thing, really) to switch things to work in a way you're more comfortable with, as you and others have done here. Doing so doesn't make you in the right, or change the fact that to function in the current environment (either until they change, or in case they don't ever), you will need to remember the way things WORK, rather than how you WISH they worked. If the paradigm were to change, anyone used to the current system would also have to remember the rules and factors of the new system in order to function. Where am I being incorrect or unhelpful? > I will admit that, probably like just about everyone else, although I > complain about crappy software, I have never written (snail or e-mail) > to the companies to complain. You should. They listen. Especially the smaller ones. :) -Rick