From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Aug 3 21:51:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from genesis.setjmp.net (mail.discountcruise.com [208.13.245.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E48C914DED for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:50:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eric@setjmp.com) Received: from Apophis (eric@[10.0.0.193]) by genesis.setjmp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA20683 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:50:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from eric@setjmp.com) Message-ID: <002501bede34$c076a820$c100000a@cfpower.com> From: "Eric A. Griff" To: Subject: Re: advocacy site Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:49:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Mock To: Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 7:59 PM Subject: advocacy site > Hi folks, > > Just a note to let everyone know that I've just talked with Jordan and > we both have agreed that since the advocacy web site has gotten stale > due to lack of time and volunteers, it was time to officially put it > to rest. Jordan has made the changes needed to the DNS, and it should > completely vanish within the next 48 hours. > > We're hoping to get the parts that are still useful into the main web > site somewhere, and also add in any parts that aren't on the main > site. This came as somewhat of a last resort, and as Jordan said, and > I agreed with, no advocacy site is better than a stale one. > > - Jim > Bummer, Just wondering, how dynamic was the site? (IE, how easy to add/change content?) Would the problem having to do with people having to hand edit pages, and links, and such? From experience, strong backends that automate a lot make it a lot easier for people to update a site and more willing... IE uploading pages from a form for example... This is one of the reasons I use ColdFusion a lot.. Makes fast development of dynamic sites a lot faster (coming soon to a linux near you).. I am also going to send a followup email to Allaire, since I have recieved no response from them as of yet. This is a very powerful tool, and we need it.. And I think they do too.. From recent experience, I wouldn't want to be in there shoes, when their phones start ringing for support for linux confusions unrelated to coldfusion, it's gonna bite them.. It's a heck of a lot easier to find things and walk people through them on the FreeBSD side =) I think the worst part of linux is finding where things are.... I have better luck on NT, ROTFLMAO Eric A. Griff , http://www.setjmp.com setjmp Software Your source for custom 181 Genesee Street Software Solutions. Suite 504 Utica, NY 13501 ICQ# 28146852 Office: (315) 734-1668 Extension 205 Home: (315) 495-2385 (seldom) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message