While I agree that these posts are affecting the technical signal-to-noise ratio, I don't think that simply trying to move them to other lists works. Most people don't want to have to subscribe to new lists especially when some of those lists have tons of posts with no relation to CF e.g. CF-Community.
My suggestion is that people simply add "[OT]" to their posts and anyone who isn't interested in the off topic post can ignore it or better yet write a rule to handle it. Finally, I would like to add that rejecting posts to a thread that has been going on for weeks without warning is a poor way to handle the situation. Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ 888-408-0900 x901 > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:mdinowit@;houseoffusion.com] > Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 6:17 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Relationship posts > > In the last few weeks the CF-Talk list has been inundated with off topic > posts about the relationship between the ColdFusion community and > Macromedia. These discussions are important and should continue as a > healthy > debate, but they are NOT technical in nature. In order to try and keep the > CF-Talk list to technical questions about ColdFusion, I'd like to suggest > that those who want to discuss Macromedia and their practices subscribe to > the CF-Partners list. > If that list does not sound like the proper list, please email me > personally > with a new name for the list and I'll take it into consideration. > Thank you for helping keep this technical list valuable to the community > at > large. > "Only you can help the growth of ColdFusion knowledge, only you" > > Michael Dinowitz > Master of the House of Fusion > http://www.houseoffusion.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
