Re: Apple II Supportive Media

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <2hg6sl$4p8@schema.fiu.edu>, Albert Chin-A-Young writes...
> 
> Maybe Brian Tao should repost the charter for comp.sys.apple2? If
> advertising is not in it, I don't want to see any, no matter who the
> person is or how much they've done for the II.

    I don't have the charter for csa2 (just the four new subgroups that
were created last spring), but you can look on ftp.uu.net for past
newsgroup RFD's.  In any case, I don't think it says anything about
commercial postings.  That used to be net-wide taboo.  Notice I say
"used to be", because the Internet is being commercialized the way
Christmas is.

> The alt.ssii group could probably get done but I don't want to see
> comp.sys.apple2.ssii.

    Then raise your concerns during the csa2.ssii RFD if Joe decides to
proceed with it.  Nobody's forcing you to vote for the proposal.

> comp.sys.apple2.gno was a brain-dead idea (I don't mean to offend the
> GNO camp but comp.sys.apple2.unix is much better).

    We've been through all this before, but comp.sys.apple2.unix is a
little too misleading.  GNO is "UNIX-like", not "UNIX".  This is as
close to UNIX as the GS has even been, but I don't think any
knowledgeable user would mistake GNO for real UNIX.  The group was
rightly named comp.sys.apple2.gno.
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