Re: Looking for a broker or buyer for Finisar SFP and Qlogic HBA

2007-05-15 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Mon, 14 May 2007 18:40:37 -0400, Curtis Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Allen, > Thanks for taking the time to read my response and to create your own. Oh, verbose is my middle name! It's nothing. ;) > It doesn't look like you've blindly looked for this mailing list lately. If someon

Re: Looking for a broker or buyer for Finisar SFP and Qlogic HBA

2007-05-15 Thread David 'Sniper' Rigaudiere
Hi Curtis, Curtis Preston wrote: > David, > > Although "hate" is a very strong word and I may not convince you Good luck :) > I therefore had NO INTEREST in building another community that was > not connected to the existing one. Does this list want connect to other community ? I'm already conn

Re: Looking for a broker or buyer for Finisar SFP and Qlogic HBA

2007-05-14 Thread Curtis Preston
Richard Sims said: >Curtis - I think you're stretching the point for some reason... Actually, I was relating almost search-for-search the story of my recent attempt to find the TSM mailing list. I had been gone from it for a while and was searching for it, and went down a number of dead ends, in

Re: Looking for a broker or buyer for Finisar SFP and Qlogic HBA

2007-05-14 Thread Richard Sims
On May 14, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Curtis Preston wrote: It doesn't look like you've blindly looked for this mailing list lately. Consider a first time poster. I start at Google and search on "TSM mailing list" The first two links are for adsm.org. adsm.org has an ADSM-L mailing list ARCHIVE, but n

Re: Looking for a broker or buyer for Finisar SFP and Qlogic HBA

2007-05-14 Thread Curtis Preston
BTW, to further discourage SPAM, I now have the following above and below the posting interface: ATTENTI0N SPAMMERS: These forums are gateways to opt-in mailing lists whose members are helping each other with technical questions. Any commercial messages will be deleted and your User ID and emai

Re: Looking for a broker or buyer for Finisar SFP and Qlogic HBA

2007-05-14 Thread Curtis Preston
Allen, Thanks for taking the time to read my response and to create your own. I said: > The biggest problem is that newbies don't have any idea where to > post their question. They post it to a forum that's got low traffic > and they get frustrated. You said: >I disagree that this is the bigges

Re: Looking for a broker or buyer for Finisar SFP and Qlogic HBA

2007-05-14 Thread Allen S. Rout
> The biggest problem is that newbies don't have any idea where to > post their question. They post it to a forum that's got low traffic > and they get frustrated. I disagree that this is the biggest problem. The problem you describe is a problem rooted in ignorance, whose unpleasant impact is f

Re: Looking for a broker or buyer for Finisar SFP and Qlogic HBA

2007-05-14 Thread Charles A Hart
Very well put... I was suprised, and disapointed to see that an actual ADSM Member had a "Concern" was "(One concern that some people stated was that they thought that newbies would jump in and out of a forum more often than they would a mailing list, that joining the list was considered "sweat eq

Re: Looking for a broker or buyer for Finisar SFP and Qlogic HBA

2007-05-14 Thread Curtis Preston
David, Although "hate" is a very strong word and I may not convince you otherwise, please permit me to defend the idea for a moment. I hope you'll see that it was done to help the list. I believe you can agree that a single large community supporting a given product is better than several small

Re: Looking for a broker or buyer for Finisar SFP and Qlogic HBA

2007-05-14 Thread David 'Sniper' Rigaudiere
> From: "soptotech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, May 14, 2007 11:14 > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU I hate this idea where your forum is a proxy-in for ADSM-L. David Rigaudiere

Re: Looking for a broker or buyer for Finisar SFP and Qlogic HBA

2007-05-14 Thread Curtis Preston
This guy won't post to the list any more. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of soptotech Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:14 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Looking for a broker or buyer for Finisar SFP and Qlogic HBA Hi everyo