This list is dying just like assembler. Another 5, maybe 10 years, both will be in the dustbin of history. In 10 years, most of the dominant posters will be gone.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, September 8, 2023, 7:44 PM, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: I'd say head them over to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfessionalMainframers In spite of the name, it's 90% nostalgia - maybe more. And there are a lot of retired folks there to give upvotes and comments - unlike a new email group. For me, I don't mind anything reasonably on-topic. It's the political, know-it-all, truck speed limits, I-won-a-game-show type of posts that are driving people away. Tom's opinion. On 9/8/2023 2:17 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: > I'm with most of the posters... > > There needs to be an IBM-MAIN-NOSTALGIA list and these trips down memory lane > moved there when they start. > > I was pretty much gone from IBM-MAIN over the last 2-3 years due to just > being too busy > to try and keep up but recently have tried to start following again. The > signal to noise ratio > is near unbearable and much worse now. The bickering like children is > unprofessional. > > I follow from the web archives instead of email, but I guess to get any value > out of this > list and contribute when I can I'm going to have to seriously consider moving > to email and > filtering out the noise and certain posters like some others have done. Too > bad that > some people are being driven away completely. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
