Re: A2Central News

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

> I tend to prefer moderated boards, where you don't get the occasional Mac 
> user wandering in asking totally irrelevant questions.  :)

No disrespect intended at all. But I haven't found Syndicomm Chat to be an 
Apple II area at all. I signed on there hoping to meet up with Apple II 
people I used to know back in the BBS days. But there isn't much talk of 
Apple II at all. Most of what I see is 99% irrelevant Mac talk. The Mac is 
the most perfect machine ever built. Apple is the greatest company on the 
face of the earth and can do no wrong. Conversely, there is nothing good 
about Windows whatsoever, period...and PC's suck big purple donkey .... you 
get the picture.

This isn't what I expected from a chat arena that bills itself as Apple II. 
I am an Apple II enthusiast, not a Mac enthusiast. I am also a Windows user 
and I'm okay with that. When I develop an application, I'd like to see it 
ported to other platforms, to give even more people the benifit of using it. 
When a Mac user develops an application, the attitude is "It'll be ported to 
Windows over my dead body." But then, I'm not a real programmer either 
because I write apps for Windows.

Bottom line, I hope the new Apple II Chat Forums on A2 Central are ACTUALLY 
Apple II focused. I see no need to hang out in a chat room that mainly 
discusses Macs, since i'm not a Mac user. I have nothing against Macs or 
Apple Computer. I'm sure Macs are fine machines. But my PC is also a fine 
machine (I built it myself). I don't appreciate being made to feel like 
trailer park trash on account of my choice of computing platform.