New A2 board?

[Will Smith <wsmith@ctron.com>]

On 1 Dec 1998, A2MG wrote:

> > Why? What's the point? You said you were looking for another ASCIi accessible
> > forum because Compuserve (I assume, you mean just the Apple II area?)
> > is shutting down. Delphi is such a forum and it already exists. Why do
> > you need another one?

maybe because there are people that are, for whatever reason,  denied
access to it?

> Sheldon, I thought Tom was really going to set up another forum, but I guess it
> was just more of the same old  battle having to do with things that I do not
> understand or care about. I would welcome any new Apple II board, whether it's
> Ascii or not. 

hmmmm...  anyone care to e-mail me a wish-list for one?  i'm interested in
writing something in Perl, but i can't make any promises on if/when it'll
be available...  time is a valuable commodity for me...  (and then, once
it's written, it'll need a place to live; my ISP doesn't have the kind of
service available where i could have something like a CGI script running
at all hours...  <shrug>)

> I don't have telenet access because my Apple II comm software doesn't handle it
> properly at my telenet node, which is Compuserve. Anyway, I don't have any
> reason to pay for a service that doesn't include e-mail, and I'm not going to
> buy new software at this point.

sounds like a good reason...

> We haven't lost Compuserve yet - my primary need is for a good e-mail system in
> ascii where I can send text and upload files across the internet. Whether there
> is an Apple II board associated with that service is not  as important because
> the Apple II Mail Group stays very busy all the time.

all i look for in an ISP is (1) a way to get at the 'Net to surf, (2) a
way to get to kluge.net to grab my mail, and (3) newsgroups.  is that
asking for much?

> Meanwhile, I've enjoyed seeing this board (CSA2) go back to "good old Q & A,"
> and it certainly fills a great need for everyone. I just love the web, and wish
> I had made the effort years earlier.

you're right on here, Beverly.  I like it better when people aren't
screaming or looking for ways to throttle others.  i know i've done my
share of screaching here in the past, but i think that was mostly
reactionary...  <shrug>  (sorry about all that....)

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William Smith    timex-at-tpau.kluge.net
Biddeford, ME    http://www.kluge.net/~timex