Jon, what does this have to do with factual discussion. No more OT from you!
heh Sorry, I was the one who made the some of the original OT posts, but did not expect it to drag on for that long. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: [OT] Re: Women programmers (OT Threads) I love a few valuable OT threads as much as anyone else, but I think the nontechnical discussion is beginning to overwhelm the actual coding discussion. Some stats for everyone's perusal. Out of the 100 posts 33 have had a very little factual discussion, mainly from the Developer Vs Programmer topics, the Women programmers topic, and a discussion of where to theoretically find a theoretical Net mailing list. Some of the OT threads are entertaining, and a little educational, but _personally_ I don't think they are cf-talk material. If one included the Browser stats (Evolt is a great place for discussing this kind of stuff) thread the number of OT threads reaches 41%. I didn't actually read through the all the topics that looked on topic, but imagine 41% is low, as there were a few threads that were way OT, but did include something valuable content that I didn't count. Out of the last 100 posts I saw 3 or 4 very valid CF question that were not even replied to as of yet. I'd love to see everyone get into a longwinded talk about CFC Theory, but looking at the volume of mail the definitions of programmer and developer (www.dictionary.com) hold more interest to the people on the list than CFC's. Keeping cf-talk a valuable resource is an important goal, I hope we all can agree on that at least. Anyway, that's my .02... Discuss (or not) ;-) jon ps. By the time I got done typing this the last 100 posts have skewed even more OT... ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
