Re: low level format on a lisa?

[Roy Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Paul Grammens wrote:

> Mike Pfaiffer <pfaiffer@mts.net>
> >
> > Well, obviously a lot of people do care.
>
> A lot of people? I don't agree.
>
> This is why the group was called
> > comp.sys.apple2 not comp.sys.apple.legacy. If the people in this group
> > want to change the name and charter then I'm all for it. Until then the
> > agreement is to stick with the topic of the group.
>
> I already told you that if someone asks a Lisa question, I'm going to help
> them if I can.  If there's anything I enjoy more than helping someone, it's
> breaking the "rules."  Breaking the rules to help someone really makes my
> day. You can complain, or ignore it, but those are your only choices.  I
> suggest going for "ignore."

There are no newsgroups (that I know of) that deal with the Lisa and the ///,
this is the most logical newsgroup to ask for help. Certainly the Mac groups
would be filled with people who aren't even aware that Apple has made any
machines other than Macs. I own both a /// and a Lisa, and if I had trouble that
I couldn't solve with local aid, I'd ask here - where else could I ask for help?

Having said that, Paul should have the good grace to not clutter up this
newsgroup with information that can be gotten at another newsgroup. Some who
read these posts, esp. from outside the US have to pay for each minute that they
are online, and therefore have to download every post and wade through the mess
that others can just "ignore." It should be just as easy to send the info via an
email as yet another Mac post.

Roy

>
>
> Let's take a straw
> > poll to see if talking about machines other than the Apple// or /// are
> > within agreed conversation. If so then the FAQs can also be adjusted to
> > take all this into account. Either way it will benefit the group as a
> > whole to have this debate. As I suggested earlier, it's not a matter of
> > helping these "lost souls". Rather it is a matter of *where* the help
> > should take place.
> >
>
> It's moot. I'm going to ignore your opinion anyway. Ah, the internet! Such
> freedom...
>
> >
> > There is also the matter of advocasy. By now becoming a possible resource
> > for Mac questions (some people here know more about the Mac than some
> > Mac people do), wouldn't it encourage more Mac questions to this group?
>
> No. They are always lost souls who don't come back when they find out it's
> not a Mac group. I've read countless posts from Mac people over the years,
> sometimes met by rude replies.  I decided I admired Ralph Glatt's approach,
> which was to answer simple questions and then kindly suggest that the poster
> try a Mac forum in the future.
>
> In the case of Lisas, this is as good a place as any. It's not like we are
> inundated with Lisa questions, is it? In the case of Mac questions, it's
> just a continual stream of different people making the same mistake. Either
> ignore their questions (they'll soon figure out that it's not a Mac forum)
> or help them on their way.
> -Paul