Re: Proposed group addition

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Mike Pfaiffer" <pfaiffer@mts.net> wrote in message
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> The down side is between our protection of this group and the Mac groups
> snobbish attitude and ignorance of their own history, it leaves users of
> the other Apple machines in the cold. No doubt very few post here or in
> the Mac groups because they've seen the reception others have had to
> similar requests. In fact the charters of the groups forbids such posts.
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The Mac people tend to only know about machines from the
early PowerPC's to present. If  you are running System 8.0 and
above with a more snobbish attitude towards the superiority
of System X over the rest of the mac Systems. Most of them
don't realize that the older Mac's used SCSI drives and at
times I have been given attitude because of my cross-platform
knowledge...."Oh he posted that from a Windows machine.
He is not a real Mac person."  Older system questions don't
get answered on the Mac newsgroups.

I would tend to favor the group name Comp.sys.apple.legacy so
that it covers all groups not currently supported by Apple. That
would mean that you could get a variety of people from across
the Apple universe. That would also mean a larger audience of
Vintage computer users. Most users these days, sneer at people
who use or collect vintage computers. Their attitude is "buy a
Pentium IV or get a G4 machine why use that old thing" or
"Gosh, when I get those in, I trash them as worthless junk."

Another name we could use is this:

comp.sys.apple.vintage

I kinda like that one too. Just my two cents worth.
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