Re: New Apple II Web Site Now Open

[Eric Shepherd <sheppy@sheppyware.net>]

in article 20000609090654.20765.00000570@ng-fm1.aol.com, The Apple II Mail
Group at a2mg@aol.comNomail wrote on 6/9/00 6:06 AM:

> No, I was interested in a moderated public message board run on message board
> software. It could go on anyone's web site.

A2Central.com will probably have a message board sometime this summer;
hopefully before KansasFest.  I have just ordered a new machine on which the
site will run, and once that arrives and is set up--probably in two weeks or
so, I will begin investigating message board software and the like.

However, in order to maintain some sense of reality, the message board will
probably only be available to people that register to use it, and this might
cost a few dollars a year (in the $10 to $20 range).  This would help me pay
for the server, the electricity, and, hopefully, higher-bandwidth network
access for the site.  I think that's fair. :)

I would also like, eventually, to have a chat system and a file library on
the A2Central.com site.  However, all of this is just thinking aloud and
doesn't constitute a promise to provide any of this stuff.

(by the way, we have two new feature articles today, including the first by
a contributor)

-- 
Eric Shepherd
Editor
A2Central.com