Re: "State of the Midrange" by Don Rima

>  How about us all kicking in a little money, (maybe take up a collection at
>  COMMON) and buy a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal to the IBM stock
>  holders.    A kinda "Open Letter to Lou"   type thing.   Well thought out,
>  Artfully worded to present our case.     Leak it's appearance to every Mag
>  writer we can look up.
>  
>  John Carr

My data is probably dated, but I have found that many Mag writers are listed 
in the publications of the press that reports on the press, hosted by various 
schools of Journalism.  For example, Forbes Inc. publishes an annual Media 
Guide, reviewing the most influential journalists, from perspective of which 
ones influence Political leadership in Washington DC & Financial leadership 
on Wall Street.  Which Journalists are the leaders of their "profession" 
covering Science & Technology, Business & Economics, etc.

Call 1-800-825-0061 & ask about buying a recent Media Guide.
They will try to sell you their periodical on Journalism.
In my opinion, if is Ok if you have not seen the periodicals from the schools 
of Journalism.

I want to contribute to this proposed advertisement ... tell me address to 
mail my real $ check to ... I do not trust e-money yet.

I think some of the AS/400 trade press (like News/400) might be willing to 
print the proposed ad for free along with address to send $ to contribute to 
fund to put this ad in Wall Street Journal, and other relevant business press.

> Writing Lou would be a good idea IF we could get LOTS of folks to DO IT !!! 
> And do it well...

If the ad did it well & included right address to reach IBM leadership, I 
would photocopy my News/400 or whatever was helping with the fundraising & be 
one of the people adding to the pile of IBM mail bags.  I am tempted to do 
that right now with some web site pages.

Does anyone at IBM corporate pay any attention to the IBM AS/400 press?  
Contacting Rochester is just preaching to a choir that has no say in this.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
MIS Manager Green Screen Programmer & Computer Janitor of BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 
running on AS/400 V4R3 http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of 
Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical 
sub-assemblies
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