Re: Electronic Apple II Journal?

[cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)]

In article <42a9p1$sg0@opal.southwind.net>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:
>Tero Sand (cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
>
>: >Sounds like a Paul Statt article from inCider in years gone by. He said vote
>: >with your wallet, buy everything put out so people will keep making stuff.
>: [cut]
>
>: And I agree Statt was wrong. However, this isn't quite the same thing.
>: The issue was: produce a "flashy" WWW-based magazine. One could settle
>: for the text only via lynx, but if one wanted all the "flash," one
>: should download the issue and use a SS-viewer. That's how I understood
>: it, anyway.
>: I don't necessarily agree with this, either, but you're making a faulty
>: comparison. Something which I hate.
>
>My comment was only about buying stuff you don't want or need or can't afford
>just to pump dollars into the market, as Statt suggested. And as was suggested
>in this thread, buy a SS whether or not you can afford/justify it. That's a
>valid comparison in my book.

But you're wrong. The sequence was (_very_ approximately):

X: "Make 'all the flash' viewable with SS"
Y: "But I don't have SS"
X: "Tough"

I.e., the suggestion wasn't "buy SS no matter what," but "if ya wanna
read the magazine, flash and all, buy SS." Those, in _my_ book, are not
equivalent.

>Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
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