I have been a part of this list (and RACF) for decades. I have found valuable insights here, and even more valuable help for specific situations. I am deeply grateful for the help you all have been giving me along theses years and I hope to be around here for a few more years. There are a very few that consider themselves to be always right. And there has been regrettable abuse from time to time. But everyone else help, and the possibility that I just may help someone will keep me here. Thank you all for everything over the years Best regards Jack
On Sun, Sep 3, 2023, 14:20 Lionel B. Dyck <lbd...@gmail.com> wrote: > One thing to consider is the affects on the new kids on the block - those > who want to, and/or are trying to, learn the mainframe. They come here > looking for a professional list from which to ask questions and to learn > from. What is the impression they are receiving and will they stay or will > they think the mainframe consists of individuals they do not want to > associate with. > > > Lionel B. Dyck <>< > Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com > Github: https://github.com/lbdyck > > “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what > you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Bob Bridges > Sent: Saturday, September 2, 2023 8:56 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: With regrets, after many years I will no longer be following > IBM-MAIN > > I recently stopped posting on a forum (not this one), and I can tell you > why ~I~ didn't make an announcement about it: > > The first is kind of like yours, Brian: I haven't yet been able to find > any way of saying "I don't like the conversation here any more" without it > sounding, in my ears at least, like "well, if he's going to be that way > I'll just take my ball and go home. Then you'll all be sorry!" > > The second is that sometimes I try to quit and can't resist coming back. > There's something so anticlimactic about taking my ball and going home, > only to start surreptitiously posting again later, hoping no one will > notice that I couldn't stick to my threat :). > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* Thirty years ago, opposing the then-equivalent of today's motor voting > bill...I was angrily accosted by a public figure who demanded to know just > who I thought should not vote. My answer, the 30 percent of Americans who > have never heard of the United Nations. -William F Buckley, 1999 */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Brian Westerman > Sent: Saturday, September 2, 2023 18:21 > > People will join the list, people will leave the list. Some of them will > let the list know why they left (as in this case) and some of them will > either just stop participating or leave without any word at all. It's sad > to hear that people are leaving the list for any reason, but to leave > because "others" are not being professional boarders on the silly side of > things and is more in the line of a tantrum and could have been handled a > bit more professionally. > > There are many ways to selectively weed out the things you don't want to > participate in. I like MailWasher (not a plug, but I do use it) to weed > out things automatically, but for the most part I just ignore as much of > the stuff I disagree with as I can, but in some cases I have also been > upset by things. I didn't quit, and I tried not to throw a tantrum. I > just slacked off in my participation a bit. I decided that some people > have nothing better to do and it's not really my thing to try to "fix" > them. I didn't bother telling anyone that I was slacking off for two > reasons, 1) it's no one's business but my own, and 2) I think it would be > just as unprofessional to throw a tantrum and then quit as the posts that > made me want to quit in the first place. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
