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  • Subject: Re: % EOF - New AS/400 Web site
  • From: nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 20:32:41 -0500
  • Organization: Data Design Inc. http://www.datadesigninc.com

> 
> > I went there, but there is nothing there, except links to "register",
> > where you are supposed to sign up for something.
> > leif.etk.com
> 
> The site I posted about(below) is a Infoworld Discussion Forum.
> 
> I thought the fact that we have been complaining about the
> Non-AS/400 world/press not writing about, Discussing, supporting
> the AS/400 at the same level as NT, Linux, Unix, etc that
> some of us might like to visit and utilize the AS/400 specific
> discussion forum set up by Infoworld(A Non-AS/400 mag Who lately
> has actually given us some attention).
> 
> Or on the other hand Lets not.
> 
> Lets give Infoworld and it's writers (who talk to other
> writers of other magazines like Computerworld, and the rest)
> the justification to say,
> 
> "I guess the AS/400 has less interest than OS/2,  I guess it IS
> a dead platform"
> 
> Ya,  That's it,  That's the right tact to take.
> 
> (BTW, The registration was just a online registration to use their forums,
> just like Dejanews has and many other sites.)
> 
> Let's just stay in our own little groups and not participate
> in the Non-AS/400 arena's where our visiblity would really mean
> something.  Lets do our part today to help kill the platform.
> 
> And argue for days about the really important things like;
> "Is a ITER the same as a GOTO ?"
> 
> Soapbox *off
> %EOF
> Signing off,
> unsubscribing

that's too bad.  i don't think he (leif) meant to be negative, he just
was stumped on what to do.  and activity today has been pretty light all
over, what with father's day and all.  

nj
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