Re: New Mainframe Blog Site -- mainframeblogger.com

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:47:49 +1200, "Pete Dashwood"
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>> In article <67fijqF2olng4U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Pete Dashwood <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>><docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>news:futr0t$dc1$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> In article <67f6qhF2ohsgeU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Pete Dashwood <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>"gapsted" <dsurch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>No ads, no sponsor****p, just a free place to get mainframers
together.
>>>>>A gathering place for the mainframe community.
>>>>>
>>>>>[Pete]
>>>>>
>>>>>So how do I access that with ISPF?
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>>>> The same way one accesses any gathering place with it, I'd guess.
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>>>Ah, yes... Wait til TSO is not busy (yeah, right...), try ISPF, get
sick 
>>>of
>>>waiting  so knock up a quick REXX script to automatically keep trying 
>>>until
>>>success. Only, by then forgotten why I was visiting anyway... :-)
>>>
>>>I just love the idea of a bunch of mainframers all "gathering" on a 
>>>blog...
>>>It's like having a waterhole but they haven't learned to lap yet, and 
>>>nobody
>>>brought a cup... :-)
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>> No cup?  Not a problem, Mr Dashwood... there'd be a mainframer there
who
>> might know enough about tools to be able to Assemble one.
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>:-) Fair enough.
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>Magic, the Gathering...

As someone who MIGHT be getting a mainframe programming contract, I
assume that Pete is being sarcastically tongue in cheek.  Most of us
access the Internet from Windows (like me) or Linux PCs.  I keep up
with some non-mainframe blogs and the blog mentioned in the posting
has not gotten good reviews from ibm-main@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 which is
mirrored to bit.listserv.ibm-main.  There are shops running mainframes
as Internet application servers.  Some shops are using Websphere.  
>
>Pete.

Clark Morris