Re: What CSA2 desperately needs?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Slick writes ...
> 
> CSA2 needs a volunteer fire department. We also need a
> comp.sys.apple2.flames newsgroup. Whenever a thread turns into a flame
> war, the fire department will cancel the thread and foreward it to
> comp.sys.apple2 flames.
> 
> If you don't see the need for a fire department, just look at the "More
> lies from Turkey" thread, the law thread, or the "PLEASE STOP THE MAC
> AND MICROSOFT MESSAGES" thread.
>

     There is nothing wrong with flames per se. Nor would most users
wish to read through postings they knew someone else had screened
according some personal 'purity' bias.

     Information on hardware and software is just one facet of Csa2 and
associated sub-groups. Discussion of issues such as the function of
archive sites is another facet. Conflicts among individuals and
proposals for new projects are still additional facets.

     Csa2 is, mainly, an open meeting place for II users. If Nathan
Mates wants to zap Dr. Tom for a programming suggestion, this is a good
place to do it. If Dr. Tom wants to flood the Apple II universe with
ideas no one else thinks of, what better place to post than the center
of that universe? If a visitor from A2-Delphi wishes to question and
debate the operation of Apple II archive sites, this is just about the
only place such a debate is possible.

       

> The reason I am subjesting the comp.sys.apple2.flames group is that the
> flammers here want a public place to flame.

 ....

     Not quite; "flammers", debaters, ... want access to _the_ public
place. They want to speak to 'everyone' and they most certainly do not
want their comments shuttled off to some net dead letter office.

     Speaking of "dead", the earlier suggestion that Csa2 members check
out the A2-Delphi "forum" was not some rhetorical trick. If you want to
see what happens when controversy is suppressed, check out Apple2ville's
version of "the Dead Zone".



Rubywand