Re: email design

(since i was the original poster of this email question...)
I do appreciate David keeping the lists separate. In many areas,
there may be a blurring of which list is appropriate.
I usually try to be very clear in my posts, but I can see this is not one.

What I was looking for was a pc tool the user can use to generate
the email newsletter, and then drive the sending of the newsletter
from a greenscreen (most likely rpg) process, with selections from
the customer list, and the email addresses currently only exist in
the 400 cust file. The 400 at v4r5 (stuck with Officevision app)
does not yet have the email server going, and would forward to an
Exchange Server. No technicians or operations staff on-site. No
VB programming (yet). Since I was looking for a solution driven
from the 400, midrange-l seemed appropriate. I do appreciate
the answering posts - they have been most helpful.
jim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Naughton" <mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: email design


> FWIW, I'm with David on this one. I like having a variety of lists to
> choose from, and the ability to pick only the ones I'm interested in. Even
> so, I get dozens of messages a day; if there were no filtering, I'd
> probably get hundreds.
>
> While in theory I'm interested in everything, in reality I don't have time
> to wade through a lot of stuff that has zero relevance to my daily life. A
> lot of people  have Java questions and tips, but I don't (yet) use Java,
> so I'm not interested. For all I know, the BPCS and C/400 lists are very
> popular, but I really don't know what I would gain from or contribute to
> either of them.
>
> In the end, though, I don't think it really matters what I like or don't
> like. Bottom line: these are David's lists, and in return for all the time
> and effort he puts into them I think it's only fair for  us to let him run
> them the way he wants. . . .
>
> Just my $.02 (but I think he's doing a great job)
>
> Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >IMO -
> >
> >Does it REALLY matter where this subject gets discussed?
> . . .
> >
> >
> >In the end, it really doesn't matter whether we use 15 lists or 1 list to
> >discuss a computing subject...
>
>
> Mike Naughton
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> Judd Wire, Inc.
> 124 Turnpike Road
> Turners Falls, MA  01376
> 413-863-4357 x444
> mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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