Subject: The Strength of a Community Path: lobby!newstf02.news.aol.com!portc01.blue.aol.com!europa.netcrusader.net!205.252.116.205!howland.erols.net!news-out.nntp.airnews.net.MISMATCH!cabal10.airnews.net!news.airnews.net!cabal1.airnews.net!news-f.iadfw.net!usenet From: "Michael Murray" Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:24:20 -0400 Organization: Voyager Online (using Airnews.net!) Lines: 20 Message-ID: <912D7C914EFC746A.F15B4A9B5C70FE84.3DE120C7301BF786@lp.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <8li1df$f9s@library1.airnews.net> Reply-To: "Michael Murray" Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at vol.com to report improper postings NNTP-Proxy-Relay: 204.181.96.50 NNTP-Posting-Time: Mon Jul 24 13:20:32 2000 NNTP-Posting-Host: !^/Xk1k-XN?eKA< (Encoded at Airnews!) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 I wouldn't put myself in the camp of either the Turlettes or the Vogons. My alliance is the Apple II family of computers. The rest of you can all go hang. In that spirit, don't expect me to reply to any flames for this post. What I would like to point out though, in this whole sickening mess, is that *no other* antique computing community could behave this way and still survive. For example, every Commodore 64 fanatic I know feels a certain clan-like alliance and protectiveness toward every other C64 die-hard. They seem to understand that their favourite antique can't really survive without loyalty and cooperation between its modern-day followers. I'd like to put a better face on the infighting in csa2 by looking on it as a measure of strength. The Apple II has seen 10 years come and go. And if, despite the bickering, it can still enjoy the level of popularity that it does, and see excellent new products like Marinetti developed, if KFest is still a reality... then I'll bet we'll see at least another 10 years. Apple II Forever!