Re: Midrange List Guidelines -- MIDRANGE-L

I agree with Al's suggestion..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@ibm.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: Midrange List Guidelines


> At 02:00 AM 04/01/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>
> David,
>
> Would you consider posting a note that it is inappropriate to use "reply
> requested"?
>
> Al
>
>
> >Monthly posting of the guidelines for participation in the Midrange
> >Systems Mailing List.
> >
> >Keep to the subject.  The topic of the list is Midrange Systems. I think
> >we can generally agree that the S/34, S/36, S/38, & AS/400 are IBM's
> >Midrange Computer Family.  Discussion of PC topics as they relate to
> >Midrange Systems (ie. Emulation, connectivity, PC Support, etc) is fine.
> >The same applies to Mainframe discussion.
> >
> >When quoting messages, do not quote the entire message.  Just quote the
> >parts that are needed to make the appropriate references.
> >
> >Flames are absolutely prohibited.  If you disagree with someone, feel
> >free to argue the facts, but no personal attacks will be tolerated.
> >
> >The official language of the Midrange Systems Mailing List is English.
> >
> >Do not post personal messages.  Please use direct E-Mail.  This list is
> >international in scope and personal messages just end up costing money.
> >
> >Digest mode IS available... send email to DIGEST-INFO@midrange.com for
> >information on how to switch to digest mode.
> >
> >The maximum message size is approximately 10k... any messages larger than
> >that will be held for approval.
> >
> >Please do not use HTML to format messages ... not everyone has a HTML
> >enabled message reader and the extra text can (and does) cause some
> >mail readers to truncate messages.
> >
> >Advertising products, repeated postings, etc, are strictly prohibited.
> >Also, if you have a solution that will specificly help another
> >participant, feel free to tell that person.  And finally, if you are a
> >vendor, please identify yourself as such... do not try to pass yourself
> >off as a user of your own products (even if you are).
> >
> >Users groups represenatives: Please do not post meeting annoucements.
> >Relatively few people will find your local meeting annoucement of any
> >interest.
> >
> >Regarding employment related discussion: If someone wants to discuss
> >employment related issues IN THE MIDRANGE COMMUNITY... it's fine... AS
> >LONG AS THE MESSAGE DOES NOT CONTAIN SPECIFICS ABOUT A COMPANY, JOB, or
> >CONTRACT.  For instance: Posting a question such as "We're about to hire
> >a bunch of new college graduates for our AS/400 shop, what's the best
> >training program available?" is fine...  but saying "We're looking to
hire
> >some entrylevel programmers for xyz corporation who need to know how to
> >program acme widget controllers...  how do we test them" is not.
MIDRANGE
> >dot COM also hosts a MIDRANGE-JOBS list for employment discussion.  To
> >subscribe to that list: send email to MIDRANGE-JOBS@midrange.com.  In
> >addition, anyone caught farming this mailing list for email addresses
> >and using those addresses to solicite employment contact will find
> >themselves AND THE COMPANY THEY WORK FOR banned from this mailing list
> >permanently.
> >
> >Republication of this mailing list, for anything other than personal use,
> >without the explicit permission of the list owner is a violation of U.S.
> >Copyright Law and will be dealt with as such.
> >
> >Collecting or "Mining" of email address from this forum, or any related
> >web archive, is strictly and explicitly prohibited (not to mention that
> >it is extraordiarily unprofessional).
> >
> >Violation of the above guidelines will be determined by the moderator
> >and will result either a) The offending party will be forced to make
> >major modifications to a 10 year old, matching records, RPG II program
> >that uses every available indicator or b) permanent disconnection from
> >the conference (you decide which is worse).
> >
> >If you have questions or comments about these guidelines, please feel
> >free to contact the moderator, David Gibbs via internet e-mail at
> >david@midrange.com.
> >
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with
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