From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!kline Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.347 Posted: Fri Aug 6 07:30:44 1982 Received: Sun Aug 8 09:21:09 1982 #R:we13:-27600:uicsovax:3700011:000:596 uicsovax!kline Jun 29 18:30:00 1982 I agree, and concede the point. It doesn't HAVE to be this way. The thing that burns me is those of us in the academic computer world who look upon computers as being `our' property. It's a pretty snobbish attitude to try to exclude the rest of the world from computers and computing devices just because they are complicated and the `average user can't be expected to understand them.' The average user WON'T under- stand, as long as the infamous jargon and other attempts by computerists to keep the field to themselves exist. Charley Kline [decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!kline]