IBM is a large corporation. Different factions have been captivated by marketing pressures since the beginning. The R&D side has always been more forth coming. For a number of years IBM-Main was accessible via INFO-Access under hardware. It was a mirror of BAMA.UA.EDU and for me was great way to keep all the stuff tied together on a 3270/AT. Then one day it quit! No announcement or anything just DOA. We had SE's back then and I asked him what was the problem. Lots of gibberish about the Almaden server being overloaded and nobody knew listserv...yada, yada, yada. Anyway, lots of hops and bops. But we managed to keep it afloat as upgrades to switches, routers and servers made it easier protect and faster to distribute. There have been pretty good arguments about abandoning IBM-main for years. It still may happen, but for know we carry on as best we can. In a message dated 7/24/2012 7:19:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Maybe IBM would host IBM-MAIN. (IBM tried their best not to join the Internet, after all). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
