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kolusu · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 10:49 am Post subject: 100 Members within 4 days

In just 4 short days we have reached 100 + members 8) . On this occasion We would like to welcome all members and thank everyone for their support of our new web site. Our special thanks to Frank Yaegar for supporting the philosophy of the board and helping us in desgining the board.He also wrote the Introduction and Rules of the board. we are very happy that he is moderating the utilities forum. We would like to thank premkumar for his help in building the site. We look forward to have a long and fruitful relationship with all our members and we will do our best to make MVSFORUMS your home on the Internet. If you ever have any questions or concerns regarding our site please feel free to contact us and we will do our best to assist you. At your convenience we would really appreciate if you would sign our Guestbook with any feedback you have regarding our site and what you think about it.

Thank you and best wishes!

- Kolusu and Dalaly

Manas Biswal · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 11:53 pm Post subject:

Hi Kolusu,

Congrats to you for the 100+ members in the board. I would like to know who Dalaly is?. I mean I have never seen him on the old board.

Regards,
Manas

dalaly · Beginner Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 56 Topics: 23

Hi Manas Biswal,

I apologize for not introducing myself earlier. Anyhow Kolusu and I have been associates for the past 4 years working together in the mainframe arena. We both had a vision earlier in the year to develop a help board but never decided to go forward with it until the other board decided to charge a fee. On that note we decided that we would develop a community for all the mvs programmers so as we can all share our knowledge and help one another without charging a fee. We believe that by bringing this community together we can all share new tricks and tips amongst each other and make our jobs enjoyable and help our fellow MVS programmers with any questions they have.

The reason I have not been very active on the help boards is because I have been spending the majority of my time developing this web site. Kolusu and I have plans of adding a web related forum and this is when I plan on moderating a few of the boards. We are very excited about this site and want to thank all of you for joining!

Best regards, Wink

-Dalaly

Venkata Ramana Reddy · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 11:32 am Post subject:

That means... Is Dalaly the "King Maker" ??? Very Happy

Just kidding...
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bablack · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 11:54 am Post subject:

Good luck to you with this forum.

My suggestion: to be successful, you need publicity. I found out about this from a post in the IBM-MAIN mailing list (from Frank Y, I believe) where I am an active participant. As in IBM-MAIN, I think your success depends on having a significant number of regular visitors, some of whom are knowledgeable and willing to share. I will try to be in that catagory myself.

FYI, there was a similar forum to this started a few years ago, sponsored by some company (I forget who now). In fact, I think they used a version of the same forum software you use. They had even more extensive topic lists. But although I visited them periodically, there was very little traffic and I eventually deleted them from my bookmarks. I think their downfall was that no one knew they were there!

So I suggest trying to get regular referals in IBM-MAIN and similar existing mainframe lists and newsgroups. Mentions in some of the print journals can't hurt either.
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Frank Yaeger · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 12:21 pm Post subject:

Bruce,

Yes, I announced this bulletin board in ibm-main since I'm a particpant there like you. I agree that announcements in other mailing lists and newsgroups would help - although some of them might regard that as spamming.

If any of the participants here are participants in relevent newsgroups or mailing lists, it would be helpful if they'd post an announcement of www.mvsforums.com there. I'd suggest keeping it short.
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bablack · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 12:24 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Frank. I personally would not regard an announcment as spam, this this is a non-commercial and potentially useful site. I hope others feel the same.
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