MFNetDisk is a wonderful product of which the developer does not charge one single penny! My company has saved 10's of thousands of US dollars by using this free product. You might say that it is not a good idea to put production data in the hands of such a product. I say, we simply would not be able to accomplish what we have without it. In other words, our company would not be in business without MFNetDisk. We would not be able to purchase the TB's of mainframe disk storage that MFNetDisk gives us.
The postings from the developer are very useful to me and the company I work for. I don't consider them to be "ads". If you find them bothersome, then you are free not to read them. --- [email protected] wrote: From: Ed Gould <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 19:55:59 -0500 Darren, I was going to write you off list but since you brought it up. There is a on going advertisement on the list here that started as a minor annoyance and become a major pita. That is the bandwidth pig on IBM-MAIN of mfnet or what ever it's called. IMO it should be moved off to a separate list. The constant announcements of features and bugs and trial offers is getting past noise and is worth setting up a spam filter for. Could you please consider asking the author to create it's own list, please? Thanks. Ed Sent from my iPad On Jul 4, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Darren Evans-Young <[email protected]> wrote: > Ads are supposed to be approved by me prior to posting. > If someone is abusing advertising on the list, please > let me know off-list. I can set them to NOPOST, meaning > I will have to approve every post they send to the list. > > Darren (still the list owner) > > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Linda Mooney wrote: > >> I agree completely with Shmuel. >> >> >> >> Linda >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> >> From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sunday, July 3, 2011 5:34:09 PM >> Subject: Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN >> >> In <[email protected]>, >> on 07/01/2011 >> at 08:10 PM, Lindy Mayfield <[email protected]> said: >> >>> Not sure if this is my business to say so, but normally on this list >>> we try to keep ads to a minimum. >> >> It's the business of every subscriber to complain about advertisements >> that are out of bounds, although the moderator has the final say. >> >>> Though I'd say that a few people contribute to the list 95% of the >>> time, and only advertise in a very subtle way. Email footers, for >>> example. >> >> IMHO boilerplate affiliation notices in the signature are both >> appropriate and desirable. >> >>> Just saying. Me personally, I can simply not click on things. >> >> If you're referring to spam sent to addresses harvested from the list, >> that's abuse and should be reported if you understand how to correctly >> identify the origin. If you're referring to job notices approved by >> the moderator, I consider them desirable. >> >>> Remember someone once, and only once, posted a job query with his >>> resume, etc? >> >> As I recall he didn't have the moderator's prior approval. >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT >> ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> >> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. >> (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >> Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >> Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html _____________________________________________________________ Netscape. Just the Net You Need. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
