Re: "State of the Midrange" by Don Rima

Silly question, constituants is consituants past present or future. 
Could be that of those 70k emails the greater number were from future
constitants who are pro-napster rather than from present constituants
who are anti-napster.  The swing could be a question of future
positioning among voters.

But that is all beside the point, the point Rob was trying to make is
that a grassroots effort has often won such little wars, and that a
grassroots effort among the AS/400 faithful might be just what is
needed.  For what it's worth I agree with him but I have to say it will
never happen, for the reasons I pointed out earlier.  Most AS/400
faithful just don't care.

Eric Kempter wrote:
> 
> I wonder how many of those e-mails came from people old enough to vote.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Chuck Lewis [SMTP:clewis@iquest.net]
> Sent:   Tuesday, August 22, 2000 12:23 AM
> To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:        Re: "State of the Midrange" by Don Rima
> 
> Rob Dixon wrote:
> 
> <--- HUGE snip --->
> 
> <Perhaps we should take some action - all write to Lou direct or even better 
>all
> subscribers to this and other lists should turn up at an agreed time at Lou's 
>office
> with the media in tow.  That would increase the number of people who had 
>heard of the
> AS/400 if nothing else.>
> 
> Writing Lou would be a good idea IF we could get LOTS of folks to DO IT !!! 
>And do it
> well...
> 
> Not that this is apples to apples but Napster posted a plea for users to 
>email their
> folks in Congress and provided a link, etc. and RIGHT before the trial AND the
> hearings where Congress basically did nothing but say, and rightfully so, 
>this needs
> more research, it was reported that EACH Congress person was getting 70,000 
>emails on
> average !!! It got attention...
> 
> Chuck
> 
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