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> 
> >It is my understanding that they already have sessions where they
> >tear up "personalities" who don't know or care enough about kfest
> >to to associate with them. My friends have told me that these
> >attacks on "outsiders"
> 
>Excuse me, but I've attended KansasFest 10 times so far, and I've never
>seen or heard anything like what your friends describe. There is a yearly
>"roast," but those who get roasted have agreed to be roasted, and it's
>all in good-natured fun. I myself was "roasted" a few years back, and it
>was quite an honor.

The sessions referred to are _not_ 'roastings', is _not_ 'good natured
fun', and is _not_ 'an honor'.  I am glad that Max and Joe missed them.
I am contacting the administration of Avila College, KC, to ask that these
cruel situations not be tolerated at their institution during the annual
Apple II KFest events.

> 
>It's so weird to see how this newsgroup demonizes Apple II programmers,
>publishers, Kfest, and Delphi. It's like one of those few Star Trek
>episodes that take place in an alternate universe, where the good guys in
>one universe are the bad guys in another, and vice versa.
> 

Jeff Blakeney and Joe Kohn are responsible members of Delphi who post on
csa2.  But there are numerous others (whose names I won't mention) and
anonymous names like Penman and Quantum_whatever who have frequently
posted on csa2 in the past with the most vulgar language and vile
misdemeanor that give Delphi users a bad reputation in the minds of most
csa2 readers.  If programmers, publishers, Kfest attendees, and Delphi
users would become useful members of the csa2 community and help drive out
the vocal misfits,  then I don't think they would seem 'demonized' by the
csa2 readers.  If there is a problem to be solved, each one must become
part of the solution.  Letting misfits be the main representatives of
Delphi, etc. on csa2 has got to stop.  They are dragging Kfest and Delphi
into the mud along with the developers and publishers.

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)