Re: FLASH: I vote for a "Mac-Flash" list

[Frederico]

On 1/13/00 4:46 AM, Brian Leiszter via

ronaldoexecpc [dot] com

, said:


>I would like to invite all the Mac users out there to start a "Mac-Flash"

>list!

>Seems as if about 1/3 of all the posts start something like this:


Hmmm... could that possibly be because at least one third of Flasher-list 

members (and based on private email, growing) are using Macs? Don't you 

find it helpful that people bother to designate which platform they're 

using, so as to more-easily isolate the problems? By specifying Mac or 

Wintathel in the originating post, it actually cuts traffic substantially 

by not forcing the helpers to ask that question, does it not?


>"...and I can' seem to make the plugin/browser/preloader/button/MC/

>FSCommand/instance/size...etc... work. . .


Boy, those sure sound like Flash questions to me.


If the problem is in Flash, whether its Mac or Wintathel, the item is 

Flash and Flash related. If you can't stand the traffic of this list, 

then there are numerous other lists you can join.


Also, despite your apparent opinion that Mac users are not worthy of your 

time, you don't (or at least very rarely) hear Mac users bitch about 

Windows-specific issues, so please give us the same courtesy.  Would you 

like to be treated the same on other lists that are 80%-90%+ Mac-based,  

as are some of the hottest  Photoshop lists, Flash lists, GoLive lists, 

Dreamweaver lists, etc?


You may also wish to attempt to deploy filters, either by authors you 

identify as Mac users or email that contains the word 'Mac'. Of course, 

since we Mac users also post plenty of relevent and useful contributions 

that are platform-agnostic, you might just miss out on  things useful to 

you, too, but that's up to you.


>But maybe split this list up somehow (mac users - PC users)...or even boys

>and girls for all i care...


Yes, I see your point. Let's split up Mac and Wintathel, then by Flash 2, 

3 and 4, then by OS versions, then by Dreamweaver, GoLive and Frontpage, 

then by processor speed and number of monitors used, then by connections 

speed, then by boys and girls, then by age, then by IQ. . .


Pretty soon we can all be on our very own list and not have any traffic 

at all to bother ourselves with. . . (;


Cheers


Frederico


      ~Apple *is* Design.~


                  -- Rob Burgess  CEO Macromedia  5 January 2000


Think OS X -- Summer 2000




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