On Jun 7, 2018, at 6:36 AM, Tom Marchant <[email protected]> wrote: > > Censors. Terrific. > > I don't know Stack Exchange, but I have had experience with other forums > where someone had a brilliant idea to "improve" the forum by replacing it > with > something else. In each case, a thriving forum was killed off and the > replacement failed to serve enough of its users that the entire discussion > essentially died off. > > I've seen other mainframe related discussion lists, most notably on LinkedIn. > I have not been favorably impressed by what I've seen. I'll stick with > IBM-MAIN, thank you.
My experience is that StackExchange has been carefully designed to make it easy to engage in high-quality discussions, so that the result is useful and accessible. It isn’t perfect, of course, but overall it’s one of the better platforms for finding helpful information. It wouldn’t replace IBM-MAIN, but I still think it would be a good thing. -- Pew, Curtis G [email protected] ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
