Re: Negativity in the Apple II newsgroups

[Steve Jensen <sjensen@ns.qnis.net>]

In comp.sys.apple2 "Jason Whorton" <chesster@pcl.net> wrote:


: Douglas R. Kasai <d.kasai@genie.com> wrote in article
: <5icel9$4if@rock101.genie.net>...
: > small minds + small maturity + small courage to decent posts =
: > 
: > B I G  W A S T E  O F  T I M E    ;)
: > 
: > 
:      Several people have expressed their concerns as to the content of
: posts to Apple II related newsgroups.  I understand the frustration of
: seeing posts concerning any issues which might possibly frighten away
: newbies to the Apple II.  When I first started to read this newsgroup, I
: was more shocked by the wide variety of prices on items and availability of
: more modern items (SCSI hard drives, Second Sight card, CD-ROM capability)
: than the Nathan Mates vs. Tom Turley postings.  I also understand that this
: is a newsgroup and basically, anything can be posted to it, as such.  For
: example, we have messages concerning 10,000 nudes CD's, internet business
: kits, and the ever-prevalent get rich quick schemes.  As time went by, I
: learned to scan for messages which concerned my particular areas of
: interest within the newgroups and to pass up those items which didn't suit
: my tastes.  Perhaps the negativity will slow, but just as the get rich
: quick schemes, will never go away.  Thank you for taking your time to read
: this.

The spam postings are autocancelled rather rapidly.  I've read
csa2 for about 5 years and the signal/noise ratio has always been
poor.  I guess us anachronist A2 users have a high percentage of
dissident personalitys.  I find some of it intertaining.
 
Usenet is free and public, flameing is childish.  (Or vice-versa.)
 

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