Hi zMan, I've been answering similar points in the CICS-L mailing list, so I'll link you to the full discussion in the archives below. To briefly summarise though, the mailing lists are awesome and this isn't an attempt to fragment the community. It's an attempt to reach out to potentially new or existing audiences who wish to interact in different ways. The StackExchange model does have certain advantages over mailing lists for Q&A interactions. Whereas mailing lists are brilliant for IBM-MAIN styles of interaction where discussions are long and winding and branch off into several different discussions along the way.
The discussion on CICS-L from the archive: http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind1405&L=cics-l&P=240757&E=2&B=--=_alternative+0036D96380257CD2_=&T=text/html We've had a great response from everyone so far but we still need a little more help in voting up and adding new questions to the proposed community. If you can help the community link is below. Community proposal: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/67330/system-z Thanks Chris -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Hodgins IBM Software Engineer - CICS Transaction Server for z/OS The CICS blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/ChrisHodgins From: zMan <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 08/05/2014 14:22 Subject: Re: System z StackExchange proposal Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> I'm not *opposed* to the idea, but you might want to suggest why this is somehow better than IBM-MAIN (plus archives). One view says "This would fragment the community", which would NOT be a good thing. On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Christopher Hodgins < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > A few of my IBM colleagues and myself are attempting to create a new > community for System z on StackExchange, covering everything System z > related. If you haven't seen StackExchange before, it is an excellent and > easy to find place to ask questions, share answers or even just vote on > questions you would like to see answered. This isn't an attempt to replace > or displace existing communities but to encourage even more knowledge on > System z to be shared and discussed. > > To request a new community you first create a proposal community and > encourage StackExchange users to submit and/or up-vote questions. This is > to prove that the community would be viable, sustainable and useful. If > you would like to help us support this new community, we would very much > appreciate it if you could create a StackExchange account, up-vote the > existing questions and propose some new questions. > > Community proposal: > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/67330/system-z > > Many thanks > Chris > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chris Hodgins > IBM Software Engineer - CICS Transaction Server for z/OS > The CICS blog: > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/ChrisHodgins > Unless stated otherwise above: > IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number > 741598. > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
