Re: The Apple ][ was crap

["Sheldon Simms" <sheldon@semanticedge.com>]

begin  Im Artikel <B785BF7B.2E3%sloopy@amishinfo.com> schrieb "sloopy
malibu" <sloopy@amishinfo.com>:

> i would use a friends account from university of delware... he wasnt
> much of a computer person so didnt really use it... and back then i
> probly used 'rn' or something similar... (15 years ago i was 15 so i
> dont rem alot...) i mostly got on to the atari usenet forum, and
> predominetly just ftp'd software... usenet wasnt as active as it is
> today... you have to remember the internet wasnt always the porn
> wasteland it is now...
> 
> (and just for the record i didnt use an apple to get online i used an
> atari 800 with a atari 850 serial interface and a atari 835 acoustic
> modem... those were the days :')

Interesting. Although I would point out that bottom posting has been
the norm in usenet for more than 15 years.

> any other questions?
> 
> sloopy.
> 
>> From: "Sheldon Simms" <sheldon@semanticedge.com> Organization:
>> SemanticEdge
>> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.apple2 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001
>> 17:56:07 +0200 Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was crap
>> 
>> Im Artikel <B785A03F.242%sloopy@amishinfo.com> schrieb "sloopy malibu"
>> <sloopy@amishinfo.com>:
>> 
>>> hhmmmm... seems i have been 'top-posting' on the internet for 15 yaers
>> 
>> Interesting. Where in the internet have you been top posting for 15
>> years? With which program did you top post in the internet 15 years
>> ago?
>> 
>>> and on bbs's for about 18years... didnt even know i was doing it...
>>> some local bbs's even 'request' it be done... in my preference i
>>> rather 'top-posting' because it seems natural to read the response and
>>> if the reader didnt read the thread or is new he can scroll down for
>>> the background info while people who are in the know can just read the
>>> msg without scrolling (or scrolling if the msg is sufficently long
>>> enough... but IMHO complain about going one way or another is nit
>>> picking...
>>> 
>>> oh well... life goes on...
>>> 
>>> sloopy.
>>> 
>>>> From: derek.jolly@sage.com (Derek Jolly) Organization: We don' need
>>>> no steenking organisation. Newsgroups:
>>>> comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.apple2 Date: 26 Jul 2001 08:15:58 GMT
>>>> Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was crap
>>>> 
>>>> Biggo <biggo@blue-win.ch>, in message
>>>> <3B5E9491.778B9F35@blue-win.ch>, wrote
>>>> 
>>>>> "Matthew S. Carpenter" wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Mo,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cross-posting is when you post one message to more than news group
>>>>>> by putting more than one in the to: field of a message.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now tell me: what is top-posting?
>>>> 
>>>> http://rivet.50megs.com/cssfolk.html#toppost should tell you what you
>>>> need to know. --
>>>> Derek Jolly (derek.jolly@sage.com) Web: http://rivet.50megs.com/
>>>> comp.sys.sinclair folklore FAQ: http://rivet.50megs.com/cssfolk.html
>>>> Transversion PC: http://rivet.50megs.com/games.html "If it's not for
>>>> you, just don't bloody watch it." - Chris Morris
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> --
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>> denoted by the object denoted by t." -- KIF
> 


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