COBOL/400 Mailing List Guidelines -- COBOL400-L

Monthly posting of the guidelines for participation in the COBOL/400
Language Mailing List.

Keep to the subject.  The topic of the list is COBOL/400 Programming.  This
includes, but is not limited to, all aspects of COBOL programming (ILE and 
OPM), activation groups, extensions, enhancements, debugging, etc.

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