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Rising From The Ashes (5/8/99)
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We admit it-- we miss the EvangeList. There was a real sense of community to be derived from being a member of an electronic mailing list consisting of tens of thousands of like-minded Mac fanatics. Sure, the EvangeList was probably best known for its ability to unleash the full torrent of hundreds of flaming e-missives upon any journalists who dared reveal their anti-Mac bias and ignorance, but there was a lot more posted than just calls to arms. We miss the announcements of new Mac web sites, the requests for Mac-based solutions to a multitude of problems, the Mac-centric job opportunities, the EvangeList-only special offers on new Mac products-- all the stuff that really made the EvangeList so much more than just a massively parallel pro-Macintosh flamethrower. (Not that it couldn't dish some serious flamage when the occasion presented itself.)
So we always felt it was a little strange that Apple's stated reason for shutting down the EvangeList was that there's now so much less anti-Mac bias in the press these days-- as if that obviates the usefulness of a mailing list of thousands of community-minded Mac users. But it's that very community-mindedness that might resurrect the EvangeList, albeit in a slightly different (and non-Apple-sponsored) form. For instance, there's the EvangeListas.com web site and mailing list coming online shortly, being headed up by Steven Bobker, the former Editor-in-Chief of the late lamented MacUser magazine. Sign up now and avoid the rush.
There's also another Mac-oriented news list coming together, although it's a little more removed from the original EvangeList; still, you might want to check out the new "apple-news" list and see if it's what you're looking for. See? Nothing has to go away forever. As long as there are Mac users interested in hearing from like-minded citizens, there will be forums for this sort of information.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/8/99 episode: May 8, 1999: Mac OS 8.6 surfaces briefly on Apple's servers-- and then vanishes mysteriously into the ether. Meanwhile, those of you who miss the EvangeList can take a look at some alternative mailing lists that hope to fill the void, and Be, the scrappy OS upstarts who were once expected to provide the framework for the next Mac OS, are hoping Wall Street gives them a hearty thumbs-up...
Other scenes from that episode: 1514: Premature Inchoation (5/8/99) It's out! Or, at least, it was out. We speak of Mac OS 8.6, that delectable system update commonly known as Veronica, done for a week but kept under wraps for an "opportune" unveiling moment... 1516: Do Be Do Be Do (5/8/99) Remember back when Apple first started shopping around for outside operating system technology to replace the jumbled mess of unreleasable code known as Copland? Before Steve Jobs' NeXT was even a blip on Apple's radar screen, everyone thought the shoe-in would be Be...
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