RE: Midrange expertise on non-midrange stuff

Again, I would ask that we not pigeon-hole a new list to Windows, or IBM CEOs, or IBM marketing, or politics, or Ayn Rand.  Traffic on the new ISN Citizens list is just about non-existent now.

All I would ask is for a new list that would segregate the technical and non-technical posts.  Keep (?) the non-technical posts on MIDRANGE-L and add a new list for strictly technical "general" questions on the IBM midrange.  By "general" I mean stuff that isn't already covered by the other specific technical lists that David hosts, like RPG400-L, MI400-L, etc.  Call the new list MIDRANGE-TECH-L. 

Pretty please.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

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-----Original Message-----
From:   Phil [SMTP:sublime78ska@yahoo.com]
Sent:   Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:17 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        RE: Midrange expertise on non-midrange stuff

Yes, I suggested this a month or so ago.  Because us midrange people have a
different perspective then the windows people, and just because we're
completely ignorant of some windows info doesn't mean we're dumb as rocks.

(Who knows - maybe MS products crash and succumb to bugs because of the
mentality of the sys admins and programmers??)

Anyway, count me in for a Windows for Midrange Professionals list.  Not for
a general free for all, though, because the posts would be too long.  It's
why I didn't sign up for the iNation list.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of John Taylor
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:30 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Midrange expertise on non-midrange stuff
>
>
> RE: Midrange expertise on non-midrange stuffI agree with Dan & Jeff.
>
> We really need an informal shoot-the-breeze list. Initially, I
> also thought
> that the new list was going to fulfill that role, and then it became
> apparent that the list is restricted to iNation related topics. In my
> opinion, it's not going to see much traffic. We need a general
> topics list -
> not an iNation list.
>
>
> John Taylor
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bale, Dan
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 14:39
> Subject: RE: Midrange expertise on non-midrange stuff
>
>
> Agreed, Jeff, I've had numerous questions that were PC/Windoze in nature,
> but wanted answered from the perspective of the midrange group.
> A few days ago, I asked David whether ISN Citizens was intended
> to keep all
> non-technical issues off MIDRANGE-L.  David responded that it was just for
> iSeries Nation stuff.  I would like to suggest that, perhaps, there should
> be another list, so that the technical & non-technical issues that now
> appear on MIDRANGE-L can be segregated.  It would appear that a
> non-technical MIDRANGE-L would see more traffic than the ISN Citizens is
> seeing right now.  Maybe that's easier said than done.
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com
>   Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
>   (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)