On Feb 23, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Ed Finnell wrote:
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Always been a source of amusement that IBM has been so glacially
slow to
come up to speed in the information age. This list was started in
'86 because we
were having troubles morphing VM/MVS services into a single image
for the
users. It's a long long story but the end-users didn't care as
long as they got
their prints and could signon to their region. There were a few
others
started at they same time Omegamon, pMail, and a few others.
Omegamon list didn't
last long(too many short wicks?) IBM-Main and pMail survived.
For many moons IBM-Main was hung off of Software Mall interface to
Ibmlink
under hardware. IIRC it was being fed off one of the Almaden
servers for
several years. Then one day it stopped(not the list, the
interface). So made a
service call and the story was 'they pulled the server'. Well, are
they going to
replace? 'Maybe but we don't have the expertise to reconfigure the
link.' So
it went dead from IBMlink and nobody seemed to care.
So we stumbled on. Many upgrades, newsreaders, name servers, routers,
switches, and PHB's aside still providing the service. Few days shy
of the Lists
20th birthday. There won't be any giveaways or spraying confetti
but will look
forward to 21 and beyond....
Ed (and Darrin):
Thanks for all your hard work. This alone should be awarded a bronze
plaque.
Ed
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