Re: 1WSW folder - Ground Mirror - GONE!

[rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND)]

In article <4m0t3v$91e@blackice.winternet.com>, markm@winternet.com (Mark
Miller) writes:

>
>I enthusiastically applaud the efforts of whomever decided to remove the
>1WSW folder mirror of pirated software on the ground ftp site.  The
Floppy
>Bandit (aka Dr. Tom) has continually and selfishly hurt the Apple II
users
>by his pirating and sector editing of software which he does not own or
>have the rights to.
>

     Fine, except I do not recall encountering any pirated software on any
1WSW site. (Specifically, which wares have now been spared the Floppy
Bandit's foul deprecations?)  Though the possibility seems remote, it may
be that II users have just lost an access point for some useful shareware
and freeware.


>Why don't you do all of us ethical Apple II users a favor and leave the
>Apple II community

     Yes; we ethical Apple II users must stick together. Unlike _some_
here, we have no wicked memories of lugging Apples, shoe boxes of
diskettes, and those bulky Amdek Color-1 monitors to Apple User Group
"basement meetings".

     Let us declare "Ethicalness Day"! On 30 April all csa2 members will
pour through their diskette collections and expunge any which are not
originals or backups of owned originals. Goodness only knows how many hard
disks are similarly besmirched by non-share, non-free, non-Bought wares.
And, what about Xeroxed copies of docs?

     INIT, DELETE, Shread!!!

     Csa2 will be so much better once everyone is as ethical as _we_ are. 


>You have proven time and time again that you are 
>useless to the community and much worse, a burden to loyal users and
>programmers/developers.

     Dead on the mark! It's high time we loyal burdened users condemn
hedonistic Easter Egg Hunts and wanton prize-giving. As for Ware Raper
Tom's "GS World View" on-line magazine
(http://www.wco.com/~3d5d1wsw/gsezine), who, one wonders, authorized _him_
to hand out free Apple II news, reviews, ROM 4 machine pictures,
maintenance tips, and freeware?

     Enough! Let the Emu of Ethicalness rise upon Loyal limbs. Unburden
the Egg of Retribution upon the festering Fruits of unwarranted
Contributionhood!

Rubywand