RE: Creating a flat file

I agree and understand David's structure and I think he's done a great job.
That's why about 2 years ago I folded my own list on eGroups.com (now Yahoo
groups) and asked people to move over to one of David's lists.

The problem is one of perception by the community. 
There is only Midrange-L and RPG400-L in most subscriber's minds; those are the
two primary lists. In practice, one is for general banter, while the other is
for programming. And yet, by design, one is for general iSeries programming and
the other for RPG-specific topics.
Is this a good design considering that 98% of the market only uses RPG IV for
development? So what do you post in Midrange-L? CL questions? I'm not sure, so
Midrange-L ends up with banter and some CL questions while RPG400-L ends up with
RPG and non-RPG programming questions.

Sure we need separate C, CL, COBOL lists. But since 'everybody' uses RPG on
iSeries, I think we need to have a programming list that includes general
iSeries programming questions (RPG IV, RPGII, CL, DDS) and other lists for those
other languages, and then we need a real banter list that we can unsubscribe
from.
That is, Midrange-L should not be a banter list or if it is, fine, but create an
application developer list for programming questions that includes CL, DDS and
RPG. And tolerate CGI/Web questions that relate to general programming on
iSeries.

Hey, this ain't life threatening so if it stays as is, life will go on.

-BOB