“Last week, high-tech journalists around the world elicited a
shudder of relief. After 28 months, Apple’s EvangeList was shutting
down…”
“In the trail of obituaries that followed the shutdown of the
EvangeList Web site, horror stories could finally be told by those
who had been on the receiving end of EvangeListas’ flamethrowers.
Journalists unloaded tales of smoldering Web servers, 5,000-word
unbroken text diatribes and Eudora e-mail boxes stuffed to the rim
like a Massachusetts congressman’s mailbag after a National Rifle
Association rally.
“People feel like they belong to a community, and they feel very
defensive when that community is attacked…”
“… Gradually, Apple evangelists have taken a backseat to more
fiercely devoted user communities on the Net–Linux users, for
example–who expand the influential tactics of the Mac
partisans…”