Re: iSeries mags

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil,

I not only get the major OS/400 centric trade rags, but I get a slew of
other computing, business and other market centric rags as well.  Rather
litterally, I get a full plastic mail tub EACH DAY.

Frankly, most of it doesn't make it out of the garage or post office.  I
take each piece, look at the return address and to address.  From there I
can determine if it gets looked at agin or pitched immediately.

On the periodicals side, I look at the cover and then the index.  With a
few exceptions of some periodicals that I just hang on to for archival
purposes, some federal reserve documents, Cowles foundation, Barrons... I
have to find a reason to want to keep them.  If I can't find something in
the cover or index to convince me in the amount of time it took you to
read this paragraph, that I need to read or keep something in here, then
it's thrown immediately into the dumpster and doesn't make it to step
2...the in file.

I do enjoy taking all that crap that falls out of my Exxon, etc., charge
invoices what has paid return addreses on it, seal them without opening
and put them in the outgoing....eventually I'll start sticking them on
bricks until Exxon, et al, get the hint to cut that out.

Don in DC

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Neil Palmer wrote:

> Just something to ponder over the weekend, but I've been thinking about
> the problems I have these days finding the time to read the trade mags. My
> question is if you had time to read only the iSeries edition of eServer
> magazine or iSeries News, which would you pick and why?
>
> ...Neil
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