RE: Are you a newbie? Start here!

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Trevor Perry
>
> Thanks for the advice. As you did not know about this before this week,
> neither did many of the rest of us. Now we do, I bet that they will be
> added
> to the appropriate iSociety pages. Since the Welcome page is the one that
> will lead you to the rest of iSociety, I would look there first for an
> appropriate link.
>
> Since I am not in charge of iSociety member web sites, I will forward this
> information to some of them where this will fit. For me, it does not fit
> on
> Angus - where I am working on posting as much original material as I can.
>
> I would suggest you look for it on the some of the iSociety member sites
> that are the centerpiece for all System i related information. Those would
> be www.midrange.com and www.systemiportal.com.

See, THIS is the part I don't get.

You want people to join iSociety, but iSociety doesn't actually exist.  It's
just a loose confederation of other web sites.  When things are brought to
you about iSociety, then you immediately defer to "member sites".

In effect, iSociety does nothing.  And since based on the number of links
iSociety's primary information provider is System i Portal, and System i
Portal is itself primarily an aggregator of other information, then iSociety
is sort of a third-hand provider of information.

I just don't get it.

Joe