Re: How Things Change and How They Stay the Same

[Stephen Harker <s-harker@adfa.edu.au>]

"Donald C. Lee" <dlee17@ccsf.cc.ca.us> writes:

>[...] 
>     Things have changed (Nathan and quite a few of the older crew either
> left or went to Delphi) and some things have stayed the same (Mr. Turley,
> and a few of the CSA2 veterans are still around).  

I would hardly call Turley a CSA2 veteran, I don't think he gained
access until around 1994.  As someone who has been reading the group
and its predecessor (comp.sys.apple) since it was first available at
Monash University in 1989 I don't think I qualify as a veteran
either.  I have largely been lurking for some years.  However, I would
like to say that the degeneration of the newsgroup and beginning of
long flame fests seems, to me, to have started with the presence of
Turley on the group.  I would also like to say that, before the advent
of Turley, Nathan Mates used to give useful and courteous advice.  I
can't agree with his eventual methods, but do remember it as a gradual
change after a sequence of disagreements with Turley and his cohorts.

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