Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!feed2.news.erols.com!erols!news.ultranet.com!not-for-mail From: adam.kippes@pobox.com (Adam Kippes) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui,comp.lang.java.help,ne.general,comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Word Process Anywhere Beta Testers Needed Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 22:17:22 GMT Organization: UltraNet Communications, Inc. http://www.ultranet.com/ Lines: 31 Distribution: Yes Message-ID: <3518303b.30145290@news.ma.ultranet.com> References: Reply-To: adam.kippes@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: d109.dial-4.cmb.ma.ultra.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@ultra.net X-Ultra-Time: 24 Mar 1998 22:16:34 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 X-No-Archive: yes Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.java.gui:11970 comp.lang.java.help:20220 comp.lang.beta:11491 In , Michael Hayes wrote: > >So tell me: why in the world would anyone want to go online just to = do > >word processing? What am I missing here? =20 > Is this the same as the question posed some years ago: 'Who in the = world > will ever need a PC? No, they're two different questions... I'm not sure I'd trust a word processor offered by someone who can't read. > Ever hear of WebTV or Oracle's Network Computer? Yes, of course... ever hear of Fritos or smoked Gouda? > It seems like an on-line WP or maybe the suggestion to look into one as= we > did is not such a bad idea... That may well be true, but we'll never know because you won't answer a very reasonable (and painfully obvious) question; surely you must have prepared an answer. -- AK --=20 adam.kippes@pobox.com PGP keys available from servers