[plug] Net Send to Windows 98 Machines

[Nima Talebi]

Hmmm... You're right - I always have that small bit of hope that the
next time I see that paper clip, a right click would bring up menu items
such as 'hang, stab, rape, murder, drown, etc' :) I found the article
intresting too; now I am perhapse on a new line of thought. Will give
your theory a go :) Thanks for your help.

Nima

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 23:20, Harry wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 20:55:35 +0800 Nima Talebi <nima at it.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to everyone as always for being enthusiastic in helping :)
> > 
> > The problem I have with winpopup is that people (stupid people) close
> > it, and I have to rely on them to not close it in order to send
> > messages.
> >
> > Anyone?
> 
> Steady there Nima. Maybe you are dealing with highly tuned recalcitrants
> who don't want an annoying popup. Remember they've all been trained to
> swear and curse before slamming closed their spammer and MSN Enriching
> Promotional Experience(tm) popups.
> 
> Since people like to chat, what about allowing a chat window so that they
> can also interact with the messenger (you) ? Lots of studies explain that
> people work best when they feel in control of their workplace (here a
> computer desktop). They _are_ exercising control .. by closing the popup.
> 
> Public responses via chat has issues. If whatever you are doing is
> intrusive or enforces some draconian policy then you'll have to accept
> with good humour any replies that instruct you to urinate in a far away
> place. Feedback can be useful tho' :-)
> 
> This is not a troll. (I'm never going to comment about television on the
> PLUG list ever again!) I'm trying to solicit some thoughts about being
> the unwilling user of control sapping software (of any type) and ideas
> for better solutions.
> 
> I considered a little smiley animated icon that appears on the desktop 
> that the user clicks on for your message when they "damn well please"
> but despite all my best efforts I kept thinking ..
>  .. Clippy .. and having dark brooding satanic thoughts :-)
> 
> If Bill had any insight he would have made a button to explode Clippy with
> a satisfying shards-of-chromed-metal-striking-monitor-glass sound if you
> decide his answers were meaningless. Shades of h2g2 machines that fall
> apart gratifyingly. But I digress. 
>   
> There must be other methods that haven't been Bill-o-fied.
> 
> Is this useful ? I'm not sure if I like it or not ..
> 
> http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~hudson/sai/interrupt.html
> 
> Overall ..
> http://www.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/
> 
> All the best
> Harry