You're a saver for the 'short version' ;) Thanks!
Bonnie E. Betts
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.interacttechs.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: CF-Partners List
> 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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