Shai, I'm guessing the poster honestly can't remember the name of your product and isn't trying to infer any disrespect. Might I suggest you consider renaming your product to something that's easier to remember, such as "Under-priced Storage Solution" or simply "USS" for short?
;-) Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html > Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 22:30:03 -0700 > From: shai.h...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > >>MFNET (or whatever its called) > > I am sorry that many people do not care about (WHAT ITS CALL) that is OK. > I think most of the people are in this status. > Some people love WHAT ITS CALL. > One person in this list the inventor of WHAT ITS CALL hate this product. > It is better to hate WHAT ITS CALL than to "not care" about WHAT ITS > CALL , because the distance between hate to love is shorter compared > to the distance between "not care" and love. > Hate WHAT ITS CALL sound like big suffering to WHAT ITS CALL inventor. > > So, today I will pray to God to help him and make his life happier > compared to what it is today. > I am sorry that something which belong to me made the inventor of WHAT > ITS CALL to fell so bad. > One thing I can promise you. WHAT ITS CALL is not your real problem. > I did not mention the real name of WHAT ITS CALL even one time just to > not give another reason to WHAT ITS CALL to be sad. > > Shai > > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Ed Gould <ps2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Seymour: > > I tried to reply earlier and my IPAD kept mangling your name. > > I do not agree about your technical support stance on here. > > Just imagine if everyone that got stuff from the CBT tape and the xmit > > program > > and mfn** started with ther tech questions on here. IBM-MAIN would be a > > mess, > > probably 80 percent of the posts would be for those types of products. There > > would be essentially 20 percent left of IBM type posting. Then through in > > someone who likes to post long responses (no name here) no one would want to > > subscribe to IBM-main anymore. > > > > I think its entirely reasonnable for each product to have its own group or > > possibly the CBTTAPE to have its own then Lionel's product and mfnet (or > > whatever its called) to group thier own products in groups. > > > > I think the CBTTAPE is a good example why it should keep its postings to a > > CBTTAPE group as there is a multivaried group and filexxx would be to small > > (IMO). > > > > If you want to know what is going on in a group (YAHOO ANYWAY) you set > > yourself > > up as nomail and the its up to you to go to YAHOO and see what the latest > > postings are. > > IBM-main is just broad enough to hand IBM MVS type emails and that is about > > enough. Of course if you don't mind the endless bickering of U** then it > > should > > have its own email list or Darren should step in and say NO MORE take it > > offline. The bickering over U** was worse than MFNET (or whatever its > > called). > > Frankly if I had email sent to home account I would have bit bucketed the > > people > > in question long ago and I would be not talking about MFnet (or whatever its > > called) as it would have been sent to my junk mail folder 2 years ago when > > it > > was originally broadcast. YAHOO does not allow me to do so without shutting > > off > > IBM-Main altogether. > > Yes it would be nice but I can't control YAHOO and I do not want to come > > back > > from a week off to find 2000 messages either. > > > > Ed > > > > Ed > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> > > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > Sent: Wed, July 6, 2011 12:38:43 PM > > Subject: Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN > > > > In <listserv%201107050800494488.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 07/05/2011 > > at 08:00 AM, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> said: > > > >>Whether it's free or not isn't the issue. There is a significant > >>difference among > >>(1) calling out a product (commercial or freeware) as a possible > >>solution to a posted problem > >>(2) the author occasionally posting a reminder of his product > >>(3)discussing the technical aspects of the product > > > > (4)Announcing a new product or a new release. > > > >>I don't object to the second since the product is free and has > >>demonstrated benefit to the readership. > > > > That doesn't justify posting an advertisement. OTOH, I see nothing > > wrong with a tombstone reference in the sig > > > >>The third, however, is Technical Support and can be reasonably > >>requested to reside in another forum. > > > > If it's a mainframe product then I see nothing wrong with technical > > support here. That's especially true for products involving multiple > > vendors or multiple divisions of the same vendor. > > > > -- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > > We don't care. 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