> >From my humble perspective, the CF-Talk List is THE source for > information > regarding CF issues, outside of the manuals, and a few books out there. > As > for being the number one community, well, You're here, so is Dave, and > Michael, and Ben,and a ton of others ranging from novice to God in terms > of > coding skill. Does that not describe a community? And if Micael is doing > this on his own time, isn't that philanthopic enough? Is it wrong for him > to hint that help paying the bills for supporting the community is > appreciated? I think not. > Whether CF-Talk is THE list or not is certainly debatable. I find myself on three different CF mailing lists, CF-Talk, CFGURU, and BACFUG. While BACFUG is for our local user group, quite a number of people out side of the bay area participate on it. It is quite a good list. I'm sure others have their own favorite lists too as there are quite a number of top CF people that aren't on CF-Talk.
I agree that asking for help paying for community resources is quite fine. What I took issue with is how he did it. If he wants help paying for the infrastructure (servers, bandwidth, etc) required to run these lists I'm sure plenty of people would step up and offer their help; I know I would. However, he didn't ask for help from the community; he asked for Macromedia to pay for it. That in my opinion makes all the difference. -Matt ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
