RE: Midrange expertise on non-midrange stuff

["Bale, Dan" <D.Bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: Midrange expertise on non-midrange stuff

Agreed, Jeff, I've had numerous questions that were PC/Windoze in nature, but wanted answered from the perspective of the midrange group.

A few days ago, I asked David whether ISN Citizens was intended to keep all non-technical issues off MIDRANGE-L.  David responded that it was just for iSeries Nation stuff.  I would like to suggest that, perhaps, there should be another list, so that the technical & non-technical issues that now appear on MIDRANGE-L can be segregated.  It would appear that a non-technical MIDRANGE-L would see more traffic than the ISN Citizens is seeing right now.  Maybe that's easier said than done.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------

-----Original Message-----
From:   Jeff Crosby [SMTP:jlcrosby@fwi.com]
Sent:   Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:47 PM
To:     Midrange Mailing List
Subject:        Midrange expertise on non-midrange stuff

There are times when I want to ask a question or questions on an IT
topic that is not strictly a midrange topic, but I want midrange
professionals opinions on the matter.  Where can I ask such questions
and not be off-topic?

Let me give you an example.  For years, we have used Sidekick 98 as a
PIM (Personal Information Manager) for everyone.  For various reasons it
is no longer satisfactory.  I am interested in a single piece of PC
software that would 1) be a PIM (including to do lists, calendar,
contacts, etc), 2) be a CRM, 3) handle email and newsgroups, and 4) the
average 6th grader could learn and use.

If I ask on some PC forum, I will get what the world thinks about the
situation.  I don't want the world's opinion, I want the opinion of
midrange professionals because I know how they think.  What is
acceptable to the world is not necessarily acceptable to we midrangers.
We have a different standard.  Am I making sense?  Where can I ask this
kind of stuff?

Thanks.

--
-Jeff
The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.
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