The relevance of COMMON

How many COMMON conferences have you attended? Have you volunteered to help
COMMON? If you do not take an active part in the organization then please do
not criticize it. This list is wonderful and if you did attend COMMON you
could put faces to some of the names on this list. COMMON is where you can
meet people, talk to the developers and build friendships. You can go and
talk to vendors on the exhibit floor and get ideas of how the hardware or
software could enhance your company and your skills. The have many hands on
labs and sessions with excellent speakers. You get out of it what you put in
it.   IMHO

P.S. David is a champ for hosting this list and it does cost him money to
run it. I you would like to send him gold bullion I do not think he would
turn it down.

Bruce Collins
MIS Manager
Twitchell Corporation
4031 Ross Clark Circle NW
Dothan, AL 36304
(334) 792-0002
(334) 673-4121
bacollins@twitchellcorp.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Joe Teff
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 1:40 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: The relevance of COMMON (was Penton to buy Duke - News400
magazine)


I have to agree with this. The last COMMONs I attended (at least 2 yrs ago),
it seemed a very cliquish atmosphere. I feel I have better access to people
(including IBM) on these lists than I did at COMMON. I learn more and have
a better resource for answers than I did at COMMON. Between David's list
and Ignite, my needs are being met.

Joe Teff

On Friday, September 01, 2000 3:29 PM, David Keck [SMTP:dkeck@idt.net]
wrote:
> Hi Janet,  Maybe the world is changing.  Anything I can do to save time
and
> money and still achieve my goals will interest me.  Maybe Midrange-L is my
> COMMON.  This user's group is fast, free, relevant, a-political, well
> attended and always in session.  It's a beautiful thing (tear in eye).
Most
> of my learning is via books, articles, and this place.  I can download and
> evaluate most vendors software from my home or office.  I wonder what I am
> missing by not attending COMMON.
> -DaveK
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