Re: My favorite Apple II

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On 12 May 2005 22:19:47 -0700, "PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Funny, I've been visiting A2 central since it came online and it always
>seemed to me that it was the same entity .  So if they're different
>entities, why doesn't A2 central have A2 message boards available to
>the general public?  It seems that there's a proliferation of Web based
>Bulletin board software out there these days.  The overhead certainly
>isn't that high.  You'd think that a place which markets itself as a
>hub of A2 news would certainly have something of this sort.  Or is
>there an alterior motive to NOT have a service like this available on
>A2 central?  Like maybe to get people pay for a different entity....
>C'mon, GET REAL!

Well, my initial reaction to this post was to reply politely like I
usually do but the more I thought about my reply the more impolite I
wanted to be so I put aside this message for a bit.  After cooling
down and thinking about doing a polite reply again I see that Sean and
Kirk have been handling this fine so I don't really need to do any of
the replies I was going to do.

However, I will mention that even if A2Central had some web based
messaging system, I wouldn't be using it.  I have a Syndicomm
membership but I never use the web based interface because I don't
like web based message boards.  I still check messages on Delphi but
if I do it once a week that is pretty often for me.  If I didn't
already have a Delphi account from back when they had telnet access, I
probably wouldn't even have the account I check now.

I'm sure I'm not alone in my dislike for web based message systems or
the ones that do exist, such as Delphi, would be much more popular.

-- 
 Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in the
                 Apple II Community on Syndicomm.com
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