Re: comp.sys.apple2 != Macintosh

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

greg@apple2.com wrote:

: What part of the word "others" DO you understand?  Sure, there's the
: slight chance that my posting would be the first to correct the specific
: poster, but it still serves as a short-term deterrant (based upon expiry
: time) to other posters in the near future.  If you let it be seen as
: appropriate to post questions about Macs to this group, however obsolete,
: it will only encourage more such postings.

Never said it was appropriate. I advocate mailing the original poster to
tell him that his post went astray. Saves bandwidth and is guaranteed to
be seen. As for the deterrent of whiny "wrong newsgroup" followups, you
can judge how successful that is for yourself. I sure don't see it doing
any good.

: But I'll tear myself down a little bit here and say that I should have
: changed the Subject header much earlier than this.  After all, if another
: Mac user comes in here and sees this thread with so many articles in it
: they too might mistakenly assume this is a mac newsgroup.  (Feel free to
: drop the "(was: ...)" phrase from your followup's Subject header if you
: feel compelled to write one, next respondents.)

As I said, most of these are cross posted here as well as the Mac groups.
The vast majority of transgressors will never read followups posted here
only. That means you're wasting your time doing a followup.

: Perhaps it is bitterness that Apple dumped the Apple II line in favor of
: producing Macs.  Microsoft/Intel/IBM haven't done anything as personal
: against the II line.  But let's not rehash all that again.

No, they're just destroying the entire industry. But that's the subject of
other newsgroups as well.

: Usually Win/PC questions are somehow related to the group, usually asking
: about how to get disk images to and from a PC for use with an emulator or
: on an Apple II.  Mac users tend to ask Mac-only questions, rarely relating
: at all to the Apple II.

I see an awful lot of "how do I get Win95 to print to my Laserwriter" type
posts here and no one complains. I just ignore 'em myself although I could
get into the "this is the wrong newsgroup" whine mode.

: If you take the content of the articles into account instead of just their
: platform allegiance, I think you'd see posters being "shown the door"
: fairly and evenly.

Actually our friend supertimer's canned 300 line followup post to everyone
posting a newbie type question is just as annoying. That is definitely email
reply to poster material.
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