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- Item 7543324 2-June-88 21:24
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- From: ALCABES1 Alcabes, Harvey
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- To: MACAPP$ MacApp Interest List
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- cc: DEVSERVICES Developer Services
- COMMENTS Comments
- BURBECK.S Burbeck, Steve
- MACDTS Macintosh Developer Technical Supt.
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- Sub: ALink alternative to MacApp$
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- Greetings MacAppp’ers:
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- When anyone sends a link to MacApp$, it appears in well over 100 In Baskets.
- Several people have expressed concern about the number of long, technical
- messages filling their In Basket. Now we have an alternative!
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- When you connect to AppleLink you should all have access to a two-way bulletin
- board icon named “Developer Services” (you may have to scroll to see it); if
- you do not have access to that icon, send a link to DEVSERVICES.
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- When you open the “Developer Services” icon, you will now find a “Developer
- Products” folder; within that folder are a number of other folders, including
- “MPW”, “MPW IIGS Tools”, “MacApp” “APW”, “HyperTalk”, “Smalltalk”,
- [other] “Macintosh Tools Feedback”, [other] “Apple II Tools Feedback”, and
- “APDA Feedback”. [For more information about these folders, see the document
- titled “About the Developer Products Bulletin Board” in the “Developer
- Products” folder.]
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- Since this is a two-way bulletin board, any of you can post messages (and/or
- disk files) in these folders. You simply open the AppleLink folder to which
- you wish to post, make the AppleLink document you would like to post the active
- window, select “Send Memo…” from the “Mail” menu, type in a document title, and
- click on the “Post It” button. [For more information, see the document titled
- “How to Post to the Developer Products Bulletin Board” in the “Developer
- Products” folder.]
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- I strongly encourage you all to post messages to this new “MacApp” folder
- rather than sending them to MacApp$. MacApp$ will still exist, but should
- mainly be used for urgent messages for the MacApp community (if you have an
- urgent message that’s long, you could send a short description to MacApp$ which
- refers to a longer message or disk file posted to the “MacApp” folder). For
- this change to be successful, MacApp users should regularly check the “MacApp
- folder for interesting messages and post any replies to the folder.
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- I realize that AppleLink is currently not the ideal electronic conferencing
- system. If you have specific suggestions on how the AppleLink system could be
- improved, please send them in a link to the AppleLink group at the AppleLink
- address COMMENTS.
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- One of the benefits of posting messages to the folder instead of sending them
- to MacApp$ is that at a later date people can look through old messages. I
- have saved all of the messages that have been sent to MacApp$ (almost 300
- messages over 15 months). If any of you are willing to sort through these
- messages and post the ones that are still relevant to the MacApp folder
- (perhaps in one or more subfolders), you’d be providing a service to the entire
- MacApp community. Volunteers should contact Steve Burbeck at AppleLink address
- BURBECK.S.
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- In case you hadn’t heard, I am now the manager of the Macintosh Developer Tools
- Product Management group and I recently turned over the job of MacApp Product
- Manager to Steve Burbeck, who recently joined my group as Product Manager of
- Object-Oriented Programming Tools. Although Steve will have day-to-day
- responsibility for MacApp, I’ll still stay involved; after three years of
- evangelizing MacApp, I won’t forget about it, especially now that it’s really
- catching on. It’s been a pleasure working with all of you early fans of
- MacApp.
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- --Harvey Alcabes
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