This list is practically worthless. There are thousands of mainframe workers and 20 people here who use it to prove they’re “geniuses”. In an earlier thread, most of you talked about how easy it was to write some filter to send my things to the circular file. Or you could simply ignore me. But, deep down, you can’t. The only people worth listening to are the IBMers and most of them can be reached via email. This is just a mirror for narcissists. I did enjoy the argument from a week or so ago between Metz & the other guy.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 1:15 PM, Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com> wrote: Yep. And people have quit the list because the signal to noise ratio is below minimums. This list badly needs an administrator who will block at least those posters who have never contributed relevant content. sas On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 11:18 AM Joel C. Ewing <jce.ebe...@cox.net> wrote: > The funding of the host of ibm-main is totally irrelevant because > postings on this list are not regulated by the university or the > government but by mutual consent of its participants and the list > administrator, with the goal that this list deal with topics that have > at least some relevance with IBM mainframes and not digress into > irrelevancies or pointless argument. People have joined this list > precisely because it has technical and professional relevance, not to > read some of the playground insults that have been traded in recent weeks. > > I too have strong feelings on politics and religion, but ibm-main is not > the appropriate place for such arguments, or for unprofessional > insults. Those who flagrantly and consistently violate the conventions > of this list can expect to be and deserve to be criticized by other > participants, have their posts blocked by other participants, and if > they persist, eventually have their right to post to the list revoked. > > Joel C. Ewing > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
