On 3/22/06, Kevin Mulvihill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, I hate to write an email like this, but I just keep wishing that all the > emails from this user group would just go away... And they don't. There's > another one today. Bash on me if you want, but I just don't think this is > appropriate fodder for an internationally-based coding list. How many of the > thousands of coders on this list are in Sydney anyway? 3? 5? 10? For the
Hopefully, more than 10. In fact, when Flash 8 was launched, in Sydney, there as a whole auditorium full of people. Where are they know? I don't know. How did they get there? Direct email announcement from Macromedia, I presume. Why am I posting the Sydney groups announcements here? The local Australian flash list http://lists.daemon.com.au/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=fugli has for the past 12 months been extremely quiet and makes me think that there there are more Sydneysiders on this list than fugli. So basically, I'm trying to cover all bases. I'm also posting to flexcoders and actionscript.org. > rest of us, these notices are just trash bin material and a complete waste > of bandwidth. I know it's only a small number of postings coming through > here each month, but what if EVERY user group started posting their meeting > notices here? How many user groups are there worldwide? Hundreds? THOUSANDS? > We would quickly be overrun. And it's simply not fair to let one post and > not another. Even Figleaf, who runs this list AND a number of user groups, > doesn't post their meeting notices here. > > I don't mind a new group starting up sending one or two announcement posts > to the list - there are a lot of coders here and hopefully a new group can > get an initial influx of members in this way. But the Sydney group is nearly > a year old, so it seems to me that THIS LIST ought to be able to get back to > coding issues, of which there are plenty, sometime soon. I appreciate your sentiment. Let me try a few things to boost the fugli list or at least boost my confidence that the target audience is subscribed to fugli. Let's begin with:- Hey all Sydneysiders!, Post a message to http://lists.daemon.com.au/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=fugli if you're in Sydney (or near Sydney) (Australia that is,sorry Canada) and are reading this please post a message saying which lists you subscribe to. Chris -- Chris Velevitch Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group www.flashdev.org.au _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
