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I just went and check this outmyself.  I didn't have any problems with the 
"truth" link.  All of these brought up little testimonials.  

I also not being a COMMON member signed up and was able to get into the site 
with no problems.  

I find it difficult to believe this will do much to promote the ISERIES, though 
I hope it will.  

Michael Smith
iSeries.mySeries.


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:25 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: News from COMMON?


From: Pete Helgren

This will be cool if it works and it has my full emotional support.  
My "business hat" side isn't so sure.

We'll see.

It took three refreshes of the screen to get the icons.  Could just be server 
load, I don't know.  It's running WorldGroup software (the old Major BBS, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_BBS) on Windows.

I'm not big on the merchandising.  They use Café Press, a very successful 
print-on-demand retailer; it's generic merchandise with a semi-custom logo. And 
definitely not at a generic price!  Who gets all the money; COMMON? Also, the 
Café Press website links to AngusTheITChap; am I the only one who sees that as 
a bit of a conflict?

The IBM "truth" link takes me to a Flash presentation that doesn't work.  It 
shows a bunch of "I" logos, with and without circles, and each one when I click 
brings up an empty white box with an empty red rectangle.  My machine? I don't 
know.

Well, I thought I'd at least try some of the features, so I tried to join. I'm 
not a COMMON member, so I created a non-COMMON member account.  After clicking 
through the "iSociety Creed", I entered my name "Joe Pluta" and a password as 
well as a bunch of personal information, and was told I was good to go.  I 
tried to then log in and am being told "Log-In Failed".

So...

Let's just say today wasn't a ringing endorsement.

Joe




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