Re: This STILL ain't a mac-only group, Randy

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <607p0v$1dg_004@news.blkbox.com>,
Glynne Tolar <glynne@spamkiller.blkbox.com> wrote:

Hey I remember you, you're one of the militant Apple haters from way back.

>I've always been annoyed by Mac discussions on an Apple II forum.
>It's even worse on Genie where the people that run the forums are all Mac
>zealots.  That's why I have not used Genie in some time now.

There's a difference between mindless crossposting and topical references to
non II Apple products here. One is useful and one is not and should be nipped
in the bud.

>I was about to ask what people on the Mac feeds would say if a bunch of Apple
>II stuff started being posted there.  Then I realized it would probibly go 
>unnoticed due to the high valume of traffic.

I can tell you one thing, no one pitches such a fit when it happens. There are
plenty enough mac newsgroup readers who are also II savvy to handle them, and
in sharp contrast to this group, responses are always courteous. 

>Not that I agree with Nathan's TACTics but Mac traffic on an Apple II forum
>is not needed.  However I do realize most of it is due to pure Mac user 
>ignorance.  They think Apple Computer was started in Steve Job's garage when 
>he built the Mac or that the Apple II is another line of Mac.

Analogy: do you know intimately every model of car ever produced by [insert
the make of your car here] just because you own a [insert the model of your
car here]?

>I suspect the only want to make them understand is to make a set of icons 
>explaining the growth of Apple Computer.  <grin>

So make one then.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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