Re: [IBMiOSS] Collaboration discussion

Thanks Mark,

I understand what you're saying and am the one who has been promoting to the community the recent early-adopter experimentation of an inclusive platform - one that would help minimize the “cavorting across the web” that we all know can be a real barrier to rapid value delivery for business programmers. But I’m not here to debate that issue at this time.

I have a question to David and Pete (as Admins for this IBMiOSS list) that I believe is relevant. In the interest of transparency, would it be possible to periodically publish the numbers of subscribed members of this list? If not, could you at least publish the current number of subscribed members of this list? I believe this information will be enlightening to us all - and if it’s already there somewhere, then I apologize for asking a dumb question; but how do I find it?

Cheers, *bg

PS - I admit I’m a newbie to mailing lists, could anyone tell me how to participate in a discussion here that occurred before I subscribed to this list? I can definitely find the discussions via search engines and view them in the list archives (those are significant benefits); but I can’t figure out how to contribute to that thread if I wasn’t subscribed at that time the originally discussion occurred. Hoping someone can help!