Re: Getting Hierarchic CDev (was not a Wolf3d Bug)

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 3 Mar 1998 16:05:37 GMT, jeffr@bnr.ca (Jeffrey Robertson) wrote:

>Geez Nathan!  If paying money to some company is the criteria you use to
>define someone as a "GS supporter", then you need help.  First of all,
>I've got better ways to spend my money: for the little that I'd be
>able to connect to these services, it isn't worth it for me.  Are you
>going to visit my WWW page (http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ds876/apple.html)
>and tell me I'm not a supporter?

Well, the way I look at it is that yes, I can get Apple II information
here on comp.sys.apple2 but I can get MORE and BETTER information from
my Genie and Delphi accounts.  I've been on Genie for about eight
years and just join Delphi on January second this year.  I have been
sporadically employed for the last four years and before that I was
only making enough money to pay my bills but I still subscribe to
these online services.

I do this because I love my Apple II and want to keep supporting it
the best that I can so that I can continue to use it.  I want the
latest and greatest news and information.  I want the latest software.
And I want the best support I can get and I'm willing to pay for it.

I still use comp.sys.apple2 to help out others and help support the
Apple II.  I do occassionally learn something new here that I haven't
heard before on the other services as well.

I have no intentions of giving up on any route I have to support my
Apple IIs.  Now if only I could get a decent Fidonet server so that I
can get back on The International Apple Echo there.

>Second, all Dr. Tom has to do is pony up some cash, and hey! presto!
>he's a bona fide supporter.  Makes perfect sense.
>
>Mr. Bennett (and anyone else) has every right to exclude his software
>from internet distribution.  But trying to act as if there is some
>rational basis to such a decision, founded on the moral and intellectual
>quality of the people who read csa2 (exclusively) or visit FTP and WWW
>sites, is a foolish waste of time.
>
>Attitudes like yours *will* eventually drive people like me out of csa2,
>but they sure won't drive us onto Delphi.  But I suppose you'll just
>use that as proof that we're not committed supporters.

I'm curious.  Exactly how does not reading/writing messages on the
three biggest Apple II support mechanisms (Delphi, Genie and
comp.sys.apple2) show that you are a committed Apple II supporter?
Even if you are helping people through your local users group, you'll
fall behind on the latest hardware and software that is available and
the quality of the support you give them would suffer as a result.

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