I got a real kick, about 15 years ago, out of an email from a stranger who'd seen something I'd posted years before and forgotten all about. The original question, in 2006, was about writing some FTP functions in VBA to connect to a mainframe. It happened I'd set up something like that for a client in Minneapolis, so I described how it worked; it wasn't what the OP wanted, so we dropped the subject and I forgot all about it.
A few years later someone ran across that discussion and asked for more information. I dragged out the code (I never throw away code, at least not on purpose) and sent it to him, with explanation. Programmers are almost always eager to explain how clever we've been, and it's usually to a completely indifferent audience. So it was pretty cool when someone contacted me out of the blue looking for more information. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Not that the Republicans don’t have their own problems, even apart from their presidential hopefuls. They are currently distressed by Iran’s “meddling” in Iraq. Apparently nobody in the party owns a map. -Joseph Sobran, 2007-02-12 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Saturday, July 8, 2023 17:32 But does anything on the internet really go away? I can imagine people 500 years in the future examining my own posts and info. So here's a "Hello" to them from Tom in the ancient year of 2023. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
