Re: The Apple ][ was crap

[spike1@freenet.co.uk]

Sheldon Simms <sheldon@semanticedge.com> did eloquently scribble:
> begin  Im Artikel <B785BF7B.2E3%sloopy@amishinfo.com> schrieb "sloopy
> malibu" <sloopy@amishinfo.com>:

>> i would use a friends account from university of delware... he wasnt
>> much of a computer person so didnt really use it... and back then i
>> probly used 'rn' or something similar... (15 years ago i was 15 so i
>> dont rem alot...) i mostly got on to the atari usenet forum, and
>> predominetly just ftp'd software... usenet wasnt as active as it is
>> today... you have to remember the internet wasnt always the porn
>> wasteland it is now...
>> 
>> (and just for the record i didnt use an apple to get online i used an
>> atari 800 with a atari 850 serial interface and a atari 835 acoustic
>> modem... those were the days :')

> Interesting. Although I would point out that bottom posting has been
> the norm in usenet for more than 15 years.

So has snipping irrelvent material from replies...
Moreso back then because bandwidth was so much more expensive.

But chastising someone for top posting (which is the USUAL cause of
overquoting) and then overquoting yourself is ever so slightly hypocritical,
don't you think?

Top posters wouldn't be half as bad if they actually bothered to go down
into the article and EDIT it down to what's relevant for the response.
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