Ok Bonnie, let me give you the shortened version ...
1. Someone at Macromedia had a brilliant idea, probably over the fifth
chardonnay of the evening that they could screw a lot more money out of
teh rich fat hosting companies if they gave them a special edition of CF
and charged them a whole lot more for it.
2. Macromedia announced the good news.
3. Every small developer in the world howled from the rooftops and sales
of ASP textbooks soared at Amazon.com
4. The guy at Macromedia, nursing a sore head, saw the messages in teh
cold light of day and pondered for a while if he could brazen it out, but
decided he wasn't in the White House and Wasn't at Redmond so he figured
it was probably an idea who's day hadn't come yet.
5. Macromedia announced they'd listened to the developers and weren't
going to do this afterall.
6. Every small developer in the world howled from the rooftops that
Macromedia were great cos they listen to their customers. (Great huh? If
Macromedia had taken the more traditional approach to lunatic ideas, and
just let it die or pretended it was not a real idea only a proposal that
wasn't going to be implemented, the good pR wouldn't have happened for
them.)
7. The CF developoment community went back to work.
Now you don't have to read it all.
Cheers,
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks.
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Bonnie Betts wrote:
> Ya know, I was thinking....
>
> My computer has been down for about 3 days now,... I come back online to
> find this hot topic blazing on the list about the Hosting edition,
> CF-Partners, etc. and I really would like to just focus on that subject
> alone. I sorted my email by subject, but still that didnt' get me any
> chronological order of the subject etc. Not to mention that I can't
> possibly read it all before I go to bed and can't get my emails that have
> downloaded at work tomorrow so I can't finish follow-up at work. It's
> really too bad this format isn't an online forum instead of an email list.
> I just started a new job this week so I didn't have a chance yet to
> subscribe for my work email address yet. And I actually dread doing that
> because that would mean wading thru 200ish emails/day both at home and at
> work and many would be duplicates (time waste reading dups). Is there an
> archive section of subjects or list postings etc that I'm not aware of?
> Does anyone have a suggestion for a 'wander CF Devr' to stay current (while
> being practical with time restraints)?
>
> Bonnie E. Betts
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.interacttechs.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 8:17 AM
> Subject: Re: CF-Partners List
>
>
> > ******************************* Team Allaire
> *******************************
> > On the topic of "mine is bigger than yours", the list gets an average of
> 200
> > posts a day. Multiply that by 30 days and that's your 6000 messages. Now
> if
> > that's just a month, think of how much you have after a year. Now think of
> > ALL the lists together.
> > Anyone want to buy me a new hard drive for my mail alone? ;)
> >
> >
> > > Only 6000? Your post made me take a look at my CF-Talk folder. I've got
> > over
> > > 12,000 and that's after archiving almost 5000 to a local DB. Guess
> you're
> > > right, it's time to archive again.
> > >
> > > Thx
> > >
> > > Stephen
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ibtoad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 10:27 AM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: RE: CF-Partners List
> > >
> > >
> > > I agree, my CF-Talk folder has over 6000 messages in it. I think its
> time
> > > to clean up.
> > > Rich
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:43 PM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: Re: CF-Partners List
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Only if you set up a filter to do it... Personally, I don't think I
> > > could survive on a daily basis without e-mail filtering.
> > >
> > > At 09:20 AM 04/30/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> > > >Doesn't email filtering accomplish the same task?
> > > >
> > > >Howie
> > > >
> > > >----- Original Message -----
> > > >From: "Aidan Whitehall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 5:05 AM
> > > >Subject: RE: CF-Partners List
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Great idea. I was getting sick of opening up e-mails (in Outlook)
> just
> > > to
> > > > > see if an e-mail came from a macromedia.com address.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any chance of doing the same for e-mails from allaire.com?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Aidan Whitehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > Netshopperuk
> > > > > Telephone +44 (01744) 648650
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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