Quote by Gamoe:

.... How about sending news of AppleTalker to other Mac news sites, like MacInTouch and maybe even MacNN. Well, at least the former....

Quote by us:

the  appletalker discussion forum was founded at the beginning of february by a breakaway group of core long-time macNN discussion forum users in direct response to a decision by macNN management to introduce intelliTXT spam advertising into their discussion forum users' posts, without any consultation with the forum members themselves.

this is a practice wich could never happen at appletalker.  in a first for a major apple discussion forum, the appletalker discussion forum  is founded on the principles of democracy and co-operative ownership. all major decisions as to the direction appletalker takes and the running of the site itself are discussed openly in the appletalker  discussion forum and policies are decided according to the majority opinion.  [recent examples of this democracy in action included members deciding - which software the board used, whether a language filter should be employed, design of the appletalker logo and moving the site to a higher spec server].

appletalker is the first apple mac discussion forum to explicity state its recognition of the fact that productive regular visitors to a discussion forum effectively write the majority of the content of that website on a voluntary basis and should be appreciated for so doing, rather than [as was the case at macNN] treated almost as troublesome intruders by the management and expected to feel "grateful" for being allowed to use the discussion forum at all.  at appletalker forum we promise never to lose sight of the fact that without our members' contributions, we wouldn't have a discussion forum in the first place.

any  member of the appletalker discussion forum, can expect to be treated with respect as an equal and valued for the input they make to the site.  you'll find no marauding moderatorss [sic - oops! freudian slip!], settling personal vendettas or arrogant management at appletalker.   all we ask in return is that users of the appletalker forum treat fellow 'appletalkers' with the same respect as they will receive from us.