Re: Syndicomm Scam

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

"Michael Black" <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:

> only New Riders of the Purple Sage...

So it's Up Aginst The Wall Redneck Mother and I Hear You've Been Laying My 
Old Lady is it? I haven't been on archive.org for about a decade. It sound 
like it hasn't changed. Old Popeye Cartoons have the same limited appeal to 
me these days as they always have.

> There are books at Gutenberg that aren't at archive.org

Back in the 80's I had a bunch of Gutenberg classic "ebooks" from BBS 
downloads (moving quickly from 300 baud modems to an amazing 2400 baud 
modem, then to a 14.4). At that time we used pine to send email through 
dialup to servers at the university (or Waffle BBS's) or our mail readers 
and FidoNet. I took down my BBS in the mid-90's and put up my first website, 
closed my university account and signed-on with the first ISP in this area, 
and quickly moved from v90 modems to cable internet. At work we had a T1 
line, ISDN lines, etc but that is another stoty.

And through it all, usenet is still here, wherever here is, and whatever 
usenet is, and whoever we are and whatever we value.

Fundamentally we are adaptable and persist because we have established 
values that build on the past. The Syndicomm Store may not persist if it 
continues in a manner that is antonymic to our values.

That is my sadness, but I don't condone taking people's money and sitting-on 
it, nor being incommunicative in an Ostritch-like manner.

In the 80's, beside my deask, and my certificate that said "World's Greatest 
CAD Operator", was a large sign done on a Calcomp 48" Pen-Plotter from a 
rather large mini-computer, and my techtronics vector workstation... it 
read:

"Better to be shot for a Wolf than a Sheep!"

I realize this is a rather harsh position for people in the Apple II 
community, (Oliver Schmidt on occasion reminded me of this:) but I think 
Tony Diaz should have come-on here and participated in this thread instead 
of Eric trying to assume the role of his intermediary to some degree.

To me that is a little like WOZ defending the Apple Store selling iTunes to 
school kids.

I try to care of my "boys" in my real analog business, and my fish customers 
always get my best.

I don't charge for the material on my websites either, except for clipshop. 
So far I have less than 10 registered users, but that $10 registration fee 
is more of a way of me keeping track of who actually uses this program that 
took me years to write. Anyone can have the source for the asking, but so 
far nobody has.

Bill