Re: Interesting (?) AS/400 Site "Ranker"

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 22 May 2001 18:30, Steve Richter wrote:
> so how did this evil genius get everyones email addr?

I only got one direct email, which was via one of the other mailing lists 
I'm on (iseries on yahoo). I noticed in the headers that it was cross 
posted to lots of other yahoo groups, various other mailing lists as well 
as comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc and the Spanish & Italian equivalents. 

Looking at the top sites and the number of votes I was puzzled by a 
number of them - IBM aren't likely to use links like this, yet they had 
the highest votes. I set up my site in the list as others seems to have 
done the same, but when Brad mentioned earlier that he hadn't entered 
his, I took a closer look at the page. Most of the early links (I got in 
at number 12) have the banner graphic pointing back to an /ez400 
directory on Yahoo, rather than from the linked-to web site, so it looks 
like the poster has 'contrived' the whole thing. I now appear to have 8 
votes without adding any code to my site. I guess it shows some 'web 
savvy', though dubious, but I don't know that it does much to promote the 
individual concerned as far as AS/400 skills go.

Regards, Martin
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Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and 
miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
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