Re: OMG!

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Kim Howe posted this personal observation:
<<...they hang out here and think it's the centre of the Apple II 
universe. comp.sys.apple2 isn't the centre of the A2 universe, 
it's a back alley leading to the sewer. The centre of the Apple 
II universe is, strangely enough called A2Central.com.>>

Kim, you are a fine Apple II/IIgs programmer that has made many 
amazing contributions with your work and software development.
You deserve all the credit and thanks for such. You are certainly
entitled to it.

However this 'comp.sys.apple2' Usenet newsgroup IS the center of
the Apple II universe for the majority of the 25,000+ readers of 
it.  They can find all the information and help they seek from this
Usenet Apple II newsgroup also and they can do so for free.

I think it's correct to say that the majority of the readers and
subscribers to comp.sys.apple2  ***DO NOT*** consider it to be 
- as you label it 'a back alley leading to the sewer'.

Certainly, if any of them desire to pay a monthly fee to be a 
subscriber to a2.central.com and find whatever they are not
able to find from posting to this newsgroup - by all means 
they should do so.  It's clear that a2.central.com is doing their
very best effort to become 'The centre of the Apple II universe' - 
just as many Apple II forums on Delphi claimed to be in the past.

I've seen many post from you to this newsgroup announcing your software 
releases in the past.  I'm really wondering just why you do such - when 
you consider it to be: ‘a back alley leading to the sewer’ ???

There are a few dozen people that post to and read this newsgroup - who are
also paying subscribers to all of the offered services from a2.central.com.
There are also many thousands who do not desire or seek such offered 
'pay for it' services.  I am one of them.  I visit a2.central.com every day to
learn
whatever they do offer to the general public by free Internet access.  But,
I have no reason or desire to pay for their member only services offered.

There are two sides to any and every fence. I like to see things from both
sides of the fence.  It gives me a very clear prespective of what is happening
in the Apple II community, past, present and future. I often wonder why
others don’t choose this method of viewing the entire community from both
sides of the fence. It does give a full view on the reality of most all issues.

Cheers,
Tom