On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Ron MacRae <[email protected]> wrote:
> While there may be small pieces of relevent information these tend to be
> hidden in vast ammounts of verbiage. However you should have the
> capability to ignore all such posts and direct them to a SPAM folder, as I
> do, without too much pain?
>
Right, I could ignore him entirely. But (a) it drags down the quality of
the list; (b) he DOES make occasional relevant comments, which I'd hate to
miss; and (c) it's rude, in a public forum. He knows better: he's been
around.
He did some interesting stuff, which I (and others) would like to hear
about. But posting about something that happened to use the same name
("Medusa") as a word that someone mentioned in passing makes it pretty
clear that this is automated, and that makes it spam. As a member of the
list, I'm going to say "Please stop spamming" to someone who should know
better (I wouldn't bother with a headhunter or other non-entity).
Plenty of venues cherish detailed technology history, anecdotes, war
stories, failure and conflict recaps, digressions, etc. But people coming
to IBM-MAIN for current zEnterprise discussions don't all want to wade
through that. So it's best -- courteous -- to post in appropriate places.
Lynn Wheeler, we know you're out there. Would that you would weigh in here,
explain yourself?
--
zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"
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