Re: What has changed in the Apple world last 6 months?

["John King" <joki@eskimo.com>]

"Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote in message
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> Scott Alfter <salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org> wrote
> >
> > Some people just don't get the point.  It's no wonder this newsgroup
isn't
> > what it used to be (and I remember when it was comp.sys.apple, so that's
> > going back quite a bit).
>
> That's why I advocate blocking/killfiling.  Let the
> comp.sys.piracy.yada.yada  kooks communicate with each other to their
> heart's content, while the rest of us support the Apple II, blissfully
> shielded from their spewing. Over time, as they find they are
communicating
> into a void, ignored by the rest of us, they'll lose interest, and we'll
be
> rid of them.
> -Paul

Yep yep. FWIW this deterioration is not unique to comp.sys.apple2.

The flood of inexperienced NG users who don't care or don't understand how
the quality of a NG goes down the toilet when flys and flame throwers are
engaged. At least there are some pretty good web forums still.