NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/apple2/25422

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From: [e-mail] (James L. Brookes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: choosing sides
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Date: 12 Dec 92 17:34:36 GMT
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(Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex) writes:

>    \/\/ell, I hope no one here thinks that I've "chosen sides."

Why would we think that?

>    ]['ve come back and been monitoring comp.sys.apple2 and posting
> here for the first time in a couple of months because I knew when
> I saw Ernie Moore's message up on GEnie that it's sure to have been
> posted here, as well.  I wanted to come on and correct what I could
> from that "transcript" as people were sure to be asking about a lot
> of the questionable things in it.  As one of the attendees of that
> meeting, I felt a certain obligation to the Apple II community at
> large to provide what first-hand insights I could.

And I think your insight, as one of the attendees, is valuable.

>    /-\fter seeing all this flak, though, it's not too likely that
> I'll be sticking around again for that much longer.  This newsgroup
> has proven itself consistently to be a great sinkhole full of
> negativity, flames, and prejudice.  The Apple II community should
> be doing its best, right now, to pull together and have everyone
> help each other.  Instead, here all we get is petty bickering.
> Come on, people, I'm sure you can all do better than that.

I hope you don't let the noise in the signal get to you.  There is a whole
lot of junk on the net, this is true.  But there are also a lot of people
with a lot to contribute who can't/won't get for-pay services such as
CI$, GEnie, or AOL.  When you say "...all we get..." I think thats pretty
unfair: like I said, there is a lot of trash, but there is a lot of worth-
while stuff as well.  I think Matt D. was right on the ball when he suggested
that people are more willing to flame on the Internet than the pay services
because Internet is free.  One of the drawbacks, I guess.  In "retaliation"
I've just become very experienced at determining when to hit "k" I suppose :)

Well, -I- hope you don't give up on comp.sys.apple2.  I'll miss your postings,
your insight, and most of all your goofy capitol letters ;)

>  /         -= Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex     (:      /
> /  [e-mail]  GEnie: LUNATIC  CI$: 76170,672  /
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