Re: KFest 2006 report

[Eric Shepherd <bin@sheppyware.net>]

On 2006-07-30 23:35:52 -0400, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> said:

> Just as it would be silly to restrict a factory that makes Christmas
> tree lights to using them to light the factory, thinking of Apple II
> services as valuable just because they are accessible to Apple II
> computers is a fallacy.

OK, I wasn't really clear with what I meant before. :)

What I mean is that while newsgroups and IRC and web boards and web 
chat doohickeys are cool, having all-text forums is a very beneficial 
thing, which is why I set them up in the first place.

It'd be easy to say, "csa2 and an IRC room" or "let's use Google Groups 
and a web chat site", but the main impetus to creating the 
Syndicomm/A2Central.com board, chat room, etc, was to provide a system 
that people could access from their Apple II.

If that weren't important to me, I'd not have bothered to write all 
that code (well, wouldn't have bothered to nudge Dave Miller to write 
all that code, since he did most of it....).  Anyway, if we didn't have 
the text interface stuff to worry about, having free boards and web 
would be pretty trivial to set up, since there are lots of services 
that offer those things free or nearly so.

But I like having the text interface available -- being able to access 
a service about the Apple II using an Apple II appeals to me, even 
though I don't do it very often myself.  I know some people do though.

Anyway, just my thoughts on it. :)

Sheppy