RE: i NATION ListServer Confusion/ownership

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

At 09:53 AM 06/19/2001 -0400, Buck Calabro wrote:
> >I appreciate your comments and web offer
> on 
> >iSeries Nation.  It might work  for the choir but 
> >one hopes, even dreams one day IBM will do 
> >something to get others knowledgeable of 
> >this wonderful system.  
>
> I am probably out of line here, but being in my "late youth"
> has made me a
> bit skeptical.
>
> Waiting for IBM to organise iNation seems terribly like waiting for
> my
> employer to send me off to Java school, Database school, Security
> school,
> Computer science school, give me a raise AND my choice of brand new
> development projects.
>
> Why not stand up for ourselves and tell IBM what we want?  And tell
> the
> world too, while we're at it?
>
> Waiting for IBM (or my employer!) just hasn't worked that well in the
> past.
> Maybe my recent reading of Hamlet has got to me, but in order to continue
> to
> exist, "to BE", I feel we should "take arms against a sea
> of troubles, and
> by opposing; end them."
>
> Buck Calabro
> Commsoft; Albany, NY
>
> +---
Hi Buck
 Seems to me that we have been asking  IBM to do 
something  for quite awhile now.

What are you suggesting we do differently or that  was not 
done before?