Re: Were you at AppleFest 1989 in San Francisco?

[macvaya@remove.this.mindspring.com (Cali Ruchala)]

In article <20021114141439.21275.00000637@mb-cu.aol.com>, mjmahon@aol.com
(Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

> Bev wrote (in part):
> 
> >Thank you for all the replies (inclucing those in e-mail who said they
> wouldn't
> >post on this board if their life depended on it...... haha,
unfortunately, you
> >are probably right!)
> 
> For the benefit of those who feel reticent about posting, I'd like
> to report that I post frequently, with my real email address and
> without any "countermeasures", and have had very little problem
> with spam (I get about 2 to 5 per day--about what my non-posting
> friends report).  As near as I can tell, a modicum of spam is just
> a fact of life for anyone with an email life.  ;-(


I *really* don't want to brag and wind up with 50,000 
returned mails in my box tomorrow, but just the simple
measure in my address above did the trick. Short of 
never using an address for anything at all, there's no
way to get away from all spam. Even then, you'll still
get sent virii from Klez, which takes up considerably
more KBs and these days is even more frequent than spam.


> Csa2 is remarkably (and happily) relatively flame-free for the last
> few years, so egos are seldom bruised here.  (I'm pretty resilient
> anyway, but just reading it can get frustrating for some.)


That part got me, too. I haven't been reading here long, but
this is, to me, a great model of what a hobbyist newsgroup
can be. I've learned an incredible amount, much more than I
had in my previous two years of reading up on the Apple II
in print, the web, old mailing list archives, etc. Obviously,
I think I came at the right time, if some flame wars still
have people feeling burned two years later. ;-)

I wasn't really around when the Apple II was new, so I find
myself grasping for simple details that most intense users
probably learned fifteen years ago. Going from a later
OS like Macintosh, OpenStep or Linux, backwards to the Apple II
sometimes impairs my understanding of how the A2 works. If 
the Apple or 68k communities weren't so friendly, I have 
serious doubts I'd be quite as involved in either one.


Cheers,


Cali Ruchala