Tom, You are a frequent poster to this list and my comments were certainly not directed at you. I am sorry you seem to have taken my remarks personally. The above also applies to any other frequent poster to this group who give more than they receive. Regards, Dave O'Brien
________________________________ Tom Marchant <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:16:21 -0400, David W. O'Brien wrote: > >.... It's when the .com is a generic ISP such as Gmail or Yahoo >that I start to question who it is asking for help. They can RTFM. I do RTFM. I've been involved with this group for many years. When I left Wayne State seven years ago I got an email address that would survive any future job changes. I still use a yahoo email address because 1. It keeps the list traffic off of my work account. I need to use email to do my job and I don't need over two thousand additional emails from IBM-MAIN cluttering up my mail here. I don't always monitor the list, and I don't want to feel oblibated to catch up with everything. Because of this, I am also set to NOMAIL and I read the list through the web interface. 2. It keeps the brain-dead disclaimer that my company puts on emails that I send outside the company off of the lists. 3. I don't have to worry about the brain-dead Out of Office Autoreply that my boss expects me to put up when I am unavailable. Again, less clutter on the list. 4. It keeps the spam away from my work account. 5. When I first left Wayne State, I went to work at a company that did not want their name identified on the list. I've moved on since then, but I am still not here as a company spokesman. There are probably other reasons. I will continue to use my yahoo email for any postings to this group. There are many on this list whose opinions I value who also use an email provider that is not their employer. Some of them do not currently have an employer. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
