Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bocklin.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!arizona!bocklin!rogerh From: rogerh@bocklin.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.notes Subject: Re: Information Overload and What We Can Do About It Message-ID: <371@bocklin.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 14:54:09 EDT Article-I.D.: bocklin.371 Posted: Mon Sep 30 14:54:09 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 05:13:28 EDT References: <10381@ucbvax.ARPA> <3274@nsc.UUCP> <698@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> <3166@nsc.UUCP> <5999@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: rogerh@arizona (Roger Hayes) Organization: Dept of CS, U of Arizona, Tucson Lines: 8 Xref: watmath net.news:4000 net.news.notes:26 Ummm, Henry, logical fallacy: because users can't cope with a baroque user interface, we are going to deny them a better one? DNF (does not follow). The fundamental disagreement is whether a keyword system is bound to be "more complex". I would argue that it can be more flexible without being more "complex", in the sense that it will take less knowledge to use it well (compared to the present system).