Re: apple macintosh plus; startup disk

[greg@apple2.com]

In article <Na3T2.33$u3.14016@news21.ispnews.com>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:
>greg@apple2.com wrote:
>>Andreas U Schlieman <aschliem@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:

>>>         we found in our lab an old apple macintosh plus. it seems that
>>> this machine does not have any hard drive. where can we get a startup disk
>>> for such an old machine?

>> Not in an Apple II newsgroup.  Try a comp.sys.mac.* group, or search
>> Apple's website.

> I hope you know that you're only wasting bandwidth with a post like this.
> If you can't or won't answer the question, why not just refrain from
> posting a followup.

Though not punctuated like one, that is phrased in the form of a question,
so I guess I'm compelled to answer:

It serves as an open disincentive for others who would try asking other
Mac questions here, just as yours serves as a disincentive for others not
to provide such disincentive postings.  An e-mailed response deters only
one individual, and after the fact at that.

After all, that is _your_ excuse for posting rather than e-mailing, right? :-)

(BTW, _this_ posting serves as a disincentive to those who would post
disincentives against posting disincentives to posting Mac questions to
Apple II newsgroups... and uh, let's stop this chain here and now.)

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