sorry, but you said (and I quote): "...that most (corporations) would immediately instruct their IT departments to change their technology usage..."
which certainly seems to imply that they'd move off of CF, so I stand by my rebuttal. As far as your NAMBLA argument... the fact that NAMBLA entails underage boys makes it illegal, and the fact that it's illegal makes it a moot point as far as this discussion goes since early on Rey made the very explicit distinction of "illegal porn". On 3/5/07, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My argument is not that they would refuse the technology > because it's used by business they would rather not associate with... > I think they would *not* want to be posted on a site like Rey's > if they're going to be listed with porn sites. > > It's the association, not the technology that's the issue... > > Rick > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:52 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: GotCFM.com - Need Opinion on Whether to Approve a Site > > On 3/5/07, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My vote... No... many business owners would not want their sites and > therefore > > their businesses associated with that industry. Unless you're trying > > to convince a porn purveyor to build his site in CF, I don't see any > > thing positive coming out of a list of porn sites mixed in with more > > "upstanding" businesses. > > I'd be willing to wager that the number of "adult" related sites would > be such a ridiculously minimal percentage of the overall list that it > wouldn't send the message "ColdFusion is for porn". > > Let's say 5% of the sites on the list are adult industry related (a > guess based on nothing in particular). Do you really think that > somebody who is contemplating using CF is going to turn around and > say, "oh no... there are porn sites built with CF. i don't want my > business associated with that and therefore choose not to use CF"? > > If that were the case, they'd also say, "oh no...there are porn sites > on the Web. I don't want my business associated with that and > therefore choose not to have a web presence." > > If you (we) start judging which sites are "acceptable" to convey a > particular message, things are just going to get ugly. > > .....and FWIW, while I don't want to sound unappreciative of the efforts > going into this site... wouldn't this thread be better suited to > cf-community since it's really not technical in nature? :) > > -- > Charlie Griefer > > ================================================ > "...All the world shall be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, > and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch > you, digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning. > Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed." > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271625 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
