CSIAM (was Re: FW: Print Text and Spooled Files)

Paul:

On Wed, 10 October 2001, "Paul Tykodi" wrote:

> I've noticed a drop in participation in comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc.  Do you
> happen to know what is prompting this?  I only monitor that one, as I only
> can justify spending so much time each day to one bb.

If you wish, you can pass some thoughts on to Rodney about CSIAM from my 
viewpoint. I've drastically reduced participation for a few reasons. First, 
because it was beginning to trend towards a secondary alt.jobs.as400 newsgroup 
and nothing could be done about it -- complaints to 'jobs' posters, their ISPs, 
their uplines, would go apparently nowhere. Next were the drastic changes 
resulting from the sale of the deja.com database; that was a blow to all 
newsgroups even if it was theoretically unrelated and replacement facilities 
were eventually created, more or less. Finally, almost everyone of interest is 
also here anyway. Of the remaining posters, too many were simply unwilling even 
to search for answers that had been given a hundred times, sometimes even 
directly stating "and please don't tell me to look it up" or similar. With all 
the indexing available, who wants to reply to "Why does this CALL with parms 
work in a CL program but not in SBMJOB?" over and over and over again?

As much as I'd like to support and promote CSIAM, it looks like I'll be fairly 
dedicated to Midrange-L for some time to come. There's too much good stuff in 
here in comparison and there doesn't seem to be anything lost.

Tom Liotta



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Tom Liotta
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Kent, WA 98032
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