RE: Replies

Jan,

I couldn't agree more...!

But arrogance is part of human nature, no so much a feature of this
particular list, IMV...  And MOST on this list treat posts with respect,
regardless of who wrote them...

There IS a problem...  This list serves folks with a huge range of
experience, from the most to the newbie.  But two lists would require extra
administration, to keep the questions on-topic, and on the proper list...

Hard to tell which list would be appropriate, at times...  I've learned an
awful lot from what some would consider "newbie" questions...:-)

jt

: -----Original Message-----
: From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
: [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Jan Megannon
: Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 7:15 PM
: To: midrange-l@midrange.com
: Subject: Replies
:
:
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: [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
: It is amazing how arrogant some of the old hands appear in this list. No
: wonder there are no new subscribers to OUR platform. (Within OUR I include
: myself, because if AS/400 Division made fridges I'd buy one. If they made
: cars, I'd drive one). If this arrogance is the jist of the responses to
: enquiries from newbies, how the hell do you expect them to post legitimate
: questions?!!!
:
: I was punting this forum to some of my customers this evening.
: They are in a
: situation where their management is considering moving off the
: AS/400 (iSeries
: is just another name for technological perfection!!). I said to
: them that they
: are our guns and that this list (along with the non-techno list) is the
: ammunition that they require to defend the platform. With the
: kind of arrogant
: B***S*** that is sometimes being flung around here, I should have directed
: them to a more subservient (yet less potent) list. I admit that
: many of the
: people here are very helpful,
:
: Sometimes even the detractors of other systems can be less
: damaging than the
: egotism found on this list. Folks, please realize that you are sometimes a
: last resort of the one who is either trying to protect this
: platform in his
: company, or of one who is trying to introduce it due to the technical
: capabilities inherent within the system. I see all this rhetoric regarding
: FAST400, CFINT and other aspects of IBM trying to nail us. All I
: have read so
: far is the negative aspects of this! Believe me , I am also up to
: HERE  with
: the pressures placed on us to either fit in or get out  of this
: platform (I
: have a posting due one of these days on that topic). How about
: some positive
: counter statements to these arguments. We have jt, Joe, Al, Leif,
: NEIL,et al,
: who are (sometimes negative, but always with a positive slant)
: that provide
: good feedback. Sometimes a product does get punted, but this is
: also positive!
: (albeit incorrect) It must be said that the product is often put
: forth as it
: may be the example that is closest to home.
:
: I am not suggesting that we all be schoolboys adhering to the behavioral
: requests of the headmaster, neither that we forsake the emotive
: responses to
: our peers. Let us just not be as arrogant as some of those are
: who communicate
: within the lists that we consider to be our opposition. We are here to
: interact, divulge information (non-strategic) and to encourage those
: uninformed ones out there to reach technological Nirvana .Or am I
: wrong about
: this list?? If so, please chastise me and banish me, as I may
: possibly have
: more productive time that I can spend on other (related) lists.
:
: Forgive the ranting and ravings of one who absolutely loves the
: AS/400, to the
: extent that he would give his wife's life for it (   :)      )
:
:
: Cheers from sunny South Africa.
: --
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