Re: APPLE COMPUTERS FOR SALE!

[xray@cs.brandeis.edu (Nathan Raymond)]

In article <slrn4p6rdt.4d8.gtolar@router.patch.net>,
gtolar@router.patch.net (Glynne Tolar) wrote:

> I have a theory.  I think because news readers don't have cute little Mac 
> and Apple II icons, Mac users are too illiterate to figure out an Apple II 
> is not a Mac.

Alternatively, a neophyte user who hasn't built up and pruned a .newsrc
file before and is using a shell account perhaps with a text-based
newsreader or some  other such program would, most likely, encounter
c.s.a2 first because it comes first ALPHABETICALLY in the full group
list.  And a neophyte user, unaware of the conventions and nettique
wouldn't be the type to familiarize themselves with the newsgroup before
posing, nor would they return to check on follow-ups.  Therefore, I think
it only sensible to predict that things will probably get worse as more
neophytes start coming online, and perhaps (if such an item isn't already
established) a little blurb in the c.s.a2 FAQ should be added to just
ignore such folk, since I doubt any follow-ups here do any good... :)

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