Bill Lancaster  wrote :
>Interesting.  Yet another "service" by Interex that is available to members
>only, that we have to pay for.  Why is it that many of the companies active
>on this list are willing to provide free web space but our very own user
>group organization, which we already pay annual dues, show fees and
>advertising, requires us to pay them for a paragraph on "our" web site.

>While I appreciate the efforts of John Alleyn-Day and SIGConsult in getting
>this, I would rather pay a company like 3K or Ron Seybold's company, than
>to pay Interex and continue to subsidize their increasing irrelevance to
>my needs.

Followed by Ron Seybold who wrote :
[snip]
><PLUG?>
>In that spirit we're starting the 3000 Consultant Corner, a Web page linked
>from our anyone-can-access FreeNews site
>(http://www.3000newswire.com/newswire) where consultants who do HP 3000
>work can profile their services in a brief listing. Those listings can
>include links to consultants' own Web sites and e-mail addresses. The
>listings are free to paid subscribers of the 3000 NewsWire. (That's a $99
>subscription in the US and Canada or $149 overseas, if you don't already
>subscribe to our monthly newsletter and e-mail news service about HP 3000s.)
[snip]

While I appreciate the services provided by both Interex and Ron Seybold as
valuable resources to the HP3000 community, I am disturbed that both are
attempting to make capital out of providing a "free" Consultant Listing. Since
I subscribe to neither of these services, I am prepared to host a "Totally
Free" listing of Consultants on a web page at my website. It will be nothing
fancy but seeing as I already provide a list of HP3000 resources on the net at
http://www.tcp.co.uk/~jdunlop/index.html, it will be at no cost to myself
(except for some time) to provide a list of Consultants.

If anyone is interested in adding their company names, URLs and e-mails to such
a list, please send to me at [log in to unmask]

John ("Free" means at NO cost) Dunlop

E-mail : [log in to unmask]