Subject: RE: Response to Bad Review [was Re: Fwd: not worth downloading]
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 20:34:17 CDT
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, WJCarpenter wrote:
> I think it is quite reasonable for a very large number of people not
> to care about these things and in fact to have never given them much
> thought at all. In fact, for the commonly-stated target user of
> AbiWord, this is even more true. Most users use one computer in one
> place in one locale, and they want apps that do various things in easy
> ways.
>
> You are, in effect, trying to point out extenuating cirumstances
> rather than pointing out where the reviewer was factually wrong. "I
> couldn't help chase my neighbor's cows because my leg was in a cast."
> That may be true, but the neighbor's cows are still wandering on the
> road.
I agree. Just stick to the points where the reviewer was factually in
error. Abi certainly does have automatic numbering of paragraphs for
example.
Cheers
Martin
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