Re: Last Apple2 Newsgroup?

[MarkWesty@hotmail.com]

In article <6alr2o$13f$1@ocean.silcom.com>,
  joe@smoe.com (Joe Seeley) wrote:
>
> Appears so.  Looking down the list of all the apple2 newsgroups (out of
> 20,000+ my feed gets) this is the only one that appears active.  I know
> marketplace has stuff from time to time but it has been empty recently.
>
> The reason I posted this is because someone a couple weeks, very foolishly
> thinking they could get some help from their Apple brethen, asked a question
> related to running the Apple ][ via an emulator.  He of course was not given
> aid and instead was summarily blown off and told to go to the
> comp.emulators.apple2 where (to paraphrase the idiot) the "conversation is
> just hopping about emulators".  Guess what?  This newsgroup is it boys and
> girls (???).  And it is dying quickly.  A far cry from when I first started
> browsing it.
>
> As a rule I lurk, but have come out in the recent past because I see the
> handwriting on the wall and know that if I wait, there's not going to be
> anybody left to read my postings (or to read postings of).
>
> The reason for the downfall for the remnant II community?  Jackasses who are
> rude to everyone and bicker and fight about petty and inconsequential things
> until they run this newsgroup and the a2 community in general into the ground.
>  It certainly isn't due to lack of advancement in technology.  If this were
> the case, then you wouldn't have any explanation of the continued fervor and
> downright flourishing of the C64 and Amiga communities.
>
> Finally, to those who say, "Oh, go to Delphi we have great stuff going on
> there!"  Guess what?  That doesn't help 98% of the people remaining in the A2
> community (the people you are supposedly trying to target or support).  This
> is the age of the internet like it or not and Delphi simply is a laughable
> excuse for a global meeting place (how many a2 members does it have anyway?
> How many period?).  If you really want to do some good, you would take over
> this newsgroup again and make it your main meeting place.
>
> I think everything said here will just be pounced on negatively and the
> downward spiral which has been going on for a couple years will continue unto
> utter oblivion.  So it goes.  Personally I'll get by on my PC and look forward
> to learning the new world of NT 5.0 (you will be assimulated).  In my very
> limited and imperfect manner I have attempted a wake up call, feeling morally
> obliged to do so, no matter how futile it appears.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joe Seeley
> Ojai, CA  USA

Well said. I couldn't have expressed it better myself.

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