Joe User

[Bruce Dykes]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bapopik at AOL.COM <Bapopik at AOL.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 12:15 AM
Subject: Joe User


>     The AOL netmail screen (which takes endless time to get down here) has
a sample involving a "Joe User."
>     There are a few--not many--hits for "Joe User" on www.deja.com.  How
often have you computer people heard it?

Often enough. How about 944 hits on Google?

The more interesting evolution is "Joe Luser" (204 Google hits), a more
backoffice term than "Joe User". Where you see "Joe User" on an AOL help
page, AOL techies may refer to a more clueless complainant as "Joe Luser".

Both terms seem to appear most frequently in documentation.

Bruce