Ed, I was about to reply to the points you made and realized we have a fundamental disagreement about the nature and tone of Timothy's posts. I have *never* thought that his posts contained "border line" material. Not even close.
Like Jim and Peter (and dozens of others from IBM), I believe Timothy's posts do add value. If he is guilty of marketing anything, it is ideas. He makes me think about business apps, multi-platform architecture, asset management and ways System z can play (in a big way) in these areas. Yes, there are other fora for pricing (LPAR=PRICING_L and ISVCOSTS to name two), but that never stopped us from talking about pricing here too. David Chase, like Marci before him *does* reply to pricing questions here and several other listservs. So does Al Sherkow. The number of subscribers here easily outnumbers those other listservs, so the discussion gets wider circulation. In the old days, we could afford to only talk bits and bytes here. No longer. > It sounds as if you're in favor of encouraging similar posts from all > mainframe vendors. Is that *really* the direction you would like to see > IBM-MAIN take? Be careful what you wish for. O:-) I am in favor of the free exchange of information. The vendors who post here learn, very quickly, what the majority deem acceptable. Even in Darren's absence, the list does occasionally police itself. :-) Timothy replied for himself in a post entitled "Re: Webcast next week: Migrating to z/OS V1.9" so I'll follow the rest of the discussion from there. Bob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
