cf-community, perhaps. One of the problems with the HOF lists that I have mentioned to Michael (bless his soul for all the hard work he and Judith put in for the griping of folks like myself) is that they fragment way too easily and the specialized lists get started too early and die before they have a chance to live. cf-jobs-talk...a great bit of taxonomy but an utterly useless real life list. It just does not nor will it have the traffic to sustain it.
Yes, cf-talk is a high volume list compared to many (though lower volume than some as well). That is its curse but also its savior. People look at it because it covers a broad swath of subjects. Because a lot of people look at it, it attracts questions of a wide variety. See the lovely loop there? Any given question may appeal to a relatively small subset of the list membership. But the list membership is diverse enough to provide someone interested in most every question. Technology has advanced to the point where it is relatively easy to ignore threads we are not particularly interested in, making superficial reading of the list fairly low cost and efficient. There are some more specialized lists which may be of sufficient interest to generate a higher ratio of signal/noise for the members of those lists. That's great. However, those lists will come about organically. Michael likes to start lists early and hope they turn into self-supporting ecosystems. That's great. I like the idea of suggesting to people that more specialized lists exist, especially when there are likely to be repeat, indepth discussions that should take place. In this case, however, no list exists within the HOF umbrella that honestly addresses the posters question. I just don't want to see people discouraged from posting a real question to a list with people who have applicable experience and who pay attention. Enough people have already responded to this question to show that it is of interest to the list and I hope that we do not become too myopic in our view of what subject matters this list should address. Cheers, Judah On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:02 PM, James Holmes<[email protected]> wrote: > > Or cf-jobs-talk perhaps. > > mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: > http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ > > 2009/7/8 Dave Watts <[email protected]>: >> >>> Just curious about what people think.. Would you ever work for equity >>> in a company? Why or why not? What guidelines would you put in place >>> if you were to? >> >> I think this is an inappropriate question for a technical list. I >> think you would be better served by posting this to cf-community. >> >> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >> http://www.figleaf.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:324339 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
