I realized a couple of years ago that I'd stopped even reading the announcements, because there was so little in there. Which is itself symptomatic of a problem, not a rebuttal to Rex's point!
On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 1:26 PM Paul Gilmartin < 0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 9 May 2023 16:56:56 +0000, Pommier, Rex wrote: > > ... > ><quote> > >This weekly e-mail communication is now sunset. You can find the weekly > IBM product announcements on the IBM Documentation Announcements page. > ></quote> > > > Did they not supply a URL? Shame! > > >Now, instead of a short summary delivered to my inbox I have to go to > IBM's documentation page to find announcements. Instead of a one-line > summary per announcement I now get the privilege of scrolling up and down > through an almost-empty web page where I can see somewhere between 6-8 > notifications per page. > > > They should just put it on TikTok. > > Looking at: < > https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUSRA-US > >, > I see more than 6-8 notifications per page. Is there a better location? > Worse? > > There is a malign WWW style rule that each page must fit on a screen, > thwarting > the "Find in Page" function. I believe it arises from a journalistic > convention that > absurdly requires a list of 100 names to be split into paragraphs no > longer than > 8 column-cm. with a different introductory phrase for each. > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
