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  • Subject: Midrange List Guidelines
  • From: MajorDomo <majordom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 21:11:04 -0600

Monthly posting of the guidelines for participation in the Midrange
Systems Mailing List.

Keep to the subject.  The topic of the list is Midrange Systems. I think
we can generally agree that the S/34, S/36, S/38, & AS/400 are IBM's
Midrange Computer Family.  Discussion of PC topics as they relate to
Midrange Systems (ie. Emulation, connectivity, PC Support, etc) is fine.
The same applies to Mainframe discussion.

When quoting messages, do not quote the entire message.  Just quote the
parts that are needed to make the appropriate references.

Flames are absolutely prohibited.  If you disagree with someone, feel
free to argue the facts, but no personal attacks will be tolerated.

The official language of the Midrange Systems Mailing List is English.

Do not post personal messages.  Please use direct E-Mail.  This list is
international in scope and personal messages just end up costing money.

Digest mode IS available... send email to DIGEST-INFO@midrange.com for
information on how to switch to digest mode.

The maximum message size is approximately 10k... any messages larger than
that will be held for approval.

Please do not use HTML to format messages ... not everyone has a HTML
enabled message reader and the extra text can (and does) cause some
mail readers to truncate messages.

Advertising products, repeated postings, etc, are strictly prohibited.
Also, if you have a solution that will specificly help another
participant, feel free to tell that person.  And finally, if you are a
vendor, please identify yourself as such... do not try to pass yourself
off as a user of your own products (even if you are).

Users groups representatives: Please do not post meeting announcements. 
Relatively few people will find your local meeting announcement of any
interest.

Regarding employment related discussion: If someone wants to discuss
employment related issues IN THE MIDRANGE COMMUNITY... it's fine... AS
LONG AS THE MESSAGE DOES NOT CONTAIN SPECIFICS ABOUT A COMPANY, JOB, or
CONTRACT.  For instance: Posting a question such as "We're about to hire
a bunch of new college graduates for our AS/400 shop, what's the best
training program available?" is fine...  but saying "We're looking to hire
some entry-level programmers for xyz corporation who need to know how to
program acme widget controllers...  how do we test them" is not.  MIDRANGE
dot COM also hosts a MIDRANGE-JOBS list for employment discussion.  To
subscribe to that list: send email to MIDRANGE-JOBS@midrange.com.  In
addition, anyone caught farming this mailing list for email addresses
and using those addresses to solicit employment contact will find 
themselves AND THE COMPANY THEY WORK FOR banned from this mailing list
permanently.

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web archive, is strictly and explicitly prohibited (not to mention that
it is extraordinarily unprofessional).

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