RE: midrangenews.net

And this is what you get when you try to unsubscribe to their spam:

Microsoft JET Database Engine error '80004005'

Los cambios solicitados en la tabla no se realizaron correctamente
porque crearían valores duplicados en el índice, clave principal o
relación. Cambie los datos en el campo o los campos que contienen datos
duplicados, quite el índice o vuelva a definir el índice para permitir
entradas duplicadas e inténtelo de nuevo.

/deleteemail.asp, line 17

I've even email their contact and asked to be removed, and of course
haven't been removed or even received a reply. 

Lovely, isn't it? As a consultant, I'll certainly not recommend any
vendor that's mentioned in their email. If the vendor doesn't care
about their message, I don't care about that vendor.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: midrangenews.net
> From: "Paul Tuohy" <tuohyp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, August 09, 2005 6:06 am
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Joe,
> 
> I just received the same "email-zine". Unfortunately, I was not successful
> in seeing any of the pictures included with the e-mail and, when I clicked
> on any of the links for the stories I got a "Connection refused" message
> (Firefox) or a "Page cannot be displayed message" (IE).
> 
> Guess they must still be running from one of those ancient iSeries machines.
> Why don't they get with the times and move the lot over to Windows?
> 
> Paul  <g>
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 8:30 AM
> Subject: midrangenews.net
> 
> 
> > This is a new blight on the industry.  It seems that California Software
> > has created an "email-zine" called MidrangeNews.net that basically
> > promotes dumping the iSeries.  It "reports" success stories of
> > California software and does "features" on the Midrange Modernization
> > Tour, while teraring down IBM and the iSeries.
> >
> > Personally, I will recommend against any of the companies who advertise
> > in the emails.  Currently, that includes California Software, iTera and
> > somebody called asymex (SpoolIT).
> >
> > Joe
> >
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