Re: Apple-E Mailing List

[dynasor@infi.net (Dennis McClain-Furmanski)]

James_OReilly (joreilly@dorsai.org) wrote:

: What is the Fido Apple Echo?  Is it useful to IIgs or IIc users?

It's pretty much the same thing as this newsgroup, but it's on Fidonet.
Fewer messages, fewer "pro's".

Used to be relatively 'noisy'; it's not anymore.

Used to be fairly discouraged by folks from here. If it still is, I might
make it available as a mailing list, but not gate it to the group in public.

It's moderated, post-hoc. That is, the posts aren't run through a moderating
site first, but they're monitored for flames and off-topic problems, and the
people involved told to stop or lose access. Since I took the moderating
over this second time, six months ago, I haven't had to do anything other
than remind. It's pretty much self-policing. We currently have users in
Netherlands and Germany, have had some regulars from Japan and Hong Kong.

It's for anything Apple II related, including ///'s. 

So far I've had a few requests as a list, and one or two who'd support the
public gating effort. I haven't had any negative responses about the latter,
but it wouldn't take many to dissuade me. It would be 'invading', after all.

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