Guidelines for MIDRANGE-L mailing list

Monthly posting of the guidelines for participation in the Midrange
Systems Mailing List.

Keep to the subject.  The topic of the list is Midrange Systems. I think
we can generally agree that the IBM i, System i, iSeries, and AS/400 are
IBM's Midrange Computer Family.  Discussion of PC topics as they relate
to Midrange Systems (ie. Emulation, connectivity, Client Access, etc) is
fine.  The same applies to Mainframe discussion.

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Questions the Smart Way" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html).

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Users groups representatives: Please do not post meeting announcements. 
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CONTRACT.  For instance: Posting a question such as "We're about to hire
a bunch of new college graduates for our AS/400 shop, what's the best
training program available?" is fine...  but saying "We're looking to hire
some entry-level programmers for xyz corporation who need to know how to
program acme widget controllers...  how do we test them" is not.  MIDRANGE
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