Gavin wrote (a while ago; guess about my eMail backlog)...

>Ok, I know I'm going to get flamed off the face of the earth for this, but
>it seems to me that the only purpose that 3kworld ever has in posting to
>3000-L is to try to attract "eyeballs" to their site in order to increase
>their web page hit count and thus justify their existence to their
>advertisers, HP, etc.
>
>I'm personally getting tired of this.

Well, not meaning to defend the 3kworld.com web site... but in the
last few weeks I found at least one positive aspect of their web site,
and that is the articles provides by the 3000 News Wire... While the
3kworld.com URLs are usually horrible to qoute or pass to someone else,
it gives at least a chance to share great pieces that would otherwise
only be available to News Wire subscribers. Don't take me wrong here!
I am not recommending to NOT subscribe the 3000 News Wire! Au contraire!
The URLs to the 3kworld.com copies of News Wire articles can be used
to share great information with others and make them aware how they can
get more of this each month in printed form.

Want an example? Just look at the great story about the City of Long
Beach, and how they spent mere $50,000 on evolving their proven legacy
application to GUI and PC integration instead of wasting $1,200,000 or
more on a fancy-schmancy NT solution (hardware, software, migration).

 http://www.3kworld.com/newsroom.asp?sit_PK=&appmode=itemDetail&news_pk=2037

Oh dear... What have I done? Just did the same as Brian always does...
Posted to HP3000-L with a URL that will probably only attract eyeballs
to increase their hit counts for advertisers... Sigh...

Wait, you could also visit http://www.3000newswire.com to get the story
from its "original home" (at least if you have access to the subscribers
online pages)...

By the way, I don't get money from Ron Seybold, so this is not a PLUG ;-)

>Flame away.

Oh. Where is my matchbox? Hmmpf. Empty.

;-) Lars