Re: What's It All About, Ian?

[fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>I also sent Frank Lim a copy of SSII, but alas, his response were not as
>well phrased as Ian's, nor do they indicate that he even read SSII. He
>says:

It's Lin, thanks you.

>> page 2 to 5 - basically press releases ( which most can be read online;
>> at least on the Internet ).  Also special offers for SenvenHills'
>> softs. Prices are good, same or better than Quality's prices.
>
>I wasn't aware that Olivier Goguel wrote any press releases about his
>current whereabouts, or that Bill Heineman had posted any press releases
>about his next projects, nor that there was an Easter Egg bureau that
>released press releases.

The nice French fella who snail-mailed me HD Install to pass out wrote
about FTA on c.s.a2 ( or was it private mail between me and him? ),
anyway, I know about Gog's status.  Not sure if I told anyone though.

Hmm, I wrote my comments kinda quick, I basically agree with Ian, for
the experienced users/programmers/people with some sort of major
online access, ss2 isn't really recommended by me.

What you said you'll send me a copy ( I asked for it ), you said I'm
one of the guy who talks more on c.s.a2.  You gave me the impression
that you will be expecting me to say good things to say about ss2.  Well,
I'm merely stating my own opinion after what I've read.  And yes, I have
read every thing in it.

>Also, the comments made about Larry Beyer's hard drive repair facility
>were based on knowing the gentleman, having gone out to dinner with him,
>and having talked to many happy customers of his. I also hadn't spotted a
>single reference to Logo in the 2 years I'd been on c.s.a2.

Well, that's nice to know.

>> page 5 to 7 - stuff related to telecom.  A political BBS was listed ( I
>> think you should advise on how much a long distant call can be if not
>> kept under control :).

		      ^^ gee...

>Gimme a break! Think, my man. With subscribers all over the country and
>all over the world, how could I have possibly done that? Should I have
>printed the world wide long distance rates? Wasn't printing the area code
>and the city enough for you? Well, e-x-c-u-s-e  m-e!

>>page 8 to 12 - Apple Expo West, this is perhaps the best part
>>about this issue of ss2.  Detailed coverage of the event.  I was there
>>myself, and it's got pretty much everything in there.
>
>It doesn't have "pretty much" everything that was there. It has a detailed
>run down of every single Apple II booth that was there, along with the
>phone numbers and addresses of every exhibitor. It was certainly much more
>extensive than any report you wrote about AEW.

>>page 13 to 14 - what's new in 6.0.1.  If you read c.s.a2, you should
>>know everything in it.
>
>As stated before, that article arrived in folk's mailbox on 7/20/93, and
>good month before 6.0.1 even showed up on the net.

All I was trying to say was, anyone with net access can get nearly all
of the informations in ss2, sooner or later.  And I remeber the press
release for 6.0.1 was posted on c.s.a2 long time ago.

>> page 14 to 15 - customized icons and system 6.  This is not really a
>> good article, imo.  It has the steps, but I doubt the users know what
>> he/she is doing; what the steps do.  Articles like this could use some
>> improvement.
>
>Since the introduction of System 6, many an Apple IIGS user has started up
>an application, only to find that the application substituted it's own
>Finder Icon's for the ones the user had been using, or wanted to use. The
>article describes in step-by-step fashion everything that needs to be done
>for an Apple IIGS user to use their own custom icons.

It does has the steps, like I said.  But it doesn't tell the user
what is being deleted; it doesn't say what a rBundle is.  And there are
certainly many other ways to handle icons by using lots of other 
freeware/shareware utilities.  Such as Reslin, LLRE, rEdit, Foudnation
( 1.0b7 ), CustomRez, and possibly others.

>In short, I think you scored great points with those who like to nitpick
>and be negative. You did not score any points in my book, and now I wonder
>where the thank you for sending you the complete Plotting GS a few weeks
>ago went. FYI, that version I sent you was not available on the net, on
>CIS, on AOL or on GEnie, until I sent you a copy to upload. You're
>welcome.

I don't know if I send you a personal thanks ( why should I??? ), although
when I posted Plotting GS on c.b.a2, I publically said thanks to Joe
for snail mailing it the first place.  You said you'll snail mail it
to who ever send you an address.  And in my opinion, I was just a spring
board to get it distrubuted freely.

And you seem take my comments very personal.  I don't feel just because
I got Plottings GS through you, and that I got a free issue of ss2, I have
to say nice things about it.  I don't think I have put down ss2 in 
my previous post, I just said most information could be obtained
online, and other comments were just some areas I though ss2 could
use some improvements.  Too bad you took it as a flame. ( and who always
say no more flames? )

And I was originally gonna keep quiet at first.  Because I knew you won't 
like my comments, but since you publically asked for my opinions in ealier
post...

-- 
frank m. lin
fmlin@netcom.com