I first read of AADeprogramming.com on February 1, 1999, when Apple posted the URL of this then-to-be website on the Yahoo Groups 12-Step-Free list. The actual site wasn't put up until a couple of weeks later, but there was much excitement. This was not the first AA-critical site to go online, but the domain name "AADeprogramming" was provocative and explicit in that it promised not just to tell the wrongs of AA, but also how to break free of its clutches.

   AADeprogramming came online featuring the anti-slogan "Get your brain out of hock." After a short time Apple added what may be the the most outrageous page, "Mail from our visitors" featuring email responses to the site. Much fan mail thanked Apple, saying how happy they are to find they're not alone in how they feel about AA. There were also pro-AA responses, people who did not hesitate to say how AA has saved millions of lives as well as their own, and that the very existence of AADeprogramming.com is very destructuve. Apple has added her own commentaries to many these letters, now up to eight pages.

   Apple added the Orange Papers, in which anonymous writer Agent Orange dissects and analyses AA. The site features the writings of many other contributors as well.

   Over the years AADeprogramming.com has become the premier AA-critical website. It is endorsed by authors Charles Bufe, Stanton Peele and Ken Ragge, is linked to in the University of Virginia Religious Movements Project entry for AA, and is (as I write this) the only directory entry in Yahoo.com's Opposing Views category under Alcoholics Anonymous.

   Site ownership is being transferred to others, as it appears Apple has found a full life outside of "the anti-AA movement" as well as away from AA. We thank Apple for all her work on the site, and we wish her well.