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Brad wrote: >> Well, personally, I think it's only common courtesy to >> offer reciprocal links. Do you really think there >> should only be links INTO your web site? If someone >> arrives at your web site and doesn't find quite what >> they're looking for, don't you want to make things >> easier for them? > >Where's your web site? Well, people don't come to my own personal web page looking for AS/400 or RPG information. It doesn't have any! Which is why I don't advertise it here. And yes, I do offer a list of those web pages that link to mine. (Every now and then, I browse my logs looking for new URLs from the HTTP_REFERER values.) Face it, using the search tools is never easy. And very often, the first few pages you look at can get you close to what you want, but not quite. If you can offer some list of related pages, perhaps the surfer doesn't have to go back to the search results. It's the kind of little thing that can improve peoples opinion of the value of your page. If web page maintenance is an issue, then offer a CGI interface to allow people to automatically add links to your list. Slashdot has that kind of feature. If it can be programmed in Perl, then why not RPG? > >I have no problem if people email me with a problem. If I can't help, I >simply refer them to midrange.com or deja.com. I also offer links on my FAQ >page that search the as/400 NG and midrange-l archives. Should be easy >enough for most. > >Why don't you tell IBM the same thing? I don't see any links on their site >except other IBM sites. Either that or they're hard to find or it costs to >do so. Well, if it were up to me, I'd certainly like to see links to related 3rd party web sites on our corporate pages! > >Sorry if I sound harsh. I'm really frustrated with some software right now. >(not ours.) :) And hopefully not ours either! ;-) Cheers! Hans Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com +--- | This is the RPG/400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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