You are right I should have mentioned Jay. No offense to him I hope!!
This is why I brought it to the giants of the ng. You see if a lightweight
like me tried to pull this together credibility would be a problem !!
But really the idea would be that no one person is responsible for the
discussion only that that happens to be the thread of the day(or week or
whatever). I would not want to pile more on you than you already have.
In addition, there are those regular contributors who have a specialty in
one particualr area (such as datagrids for instance) who could primarily
moderate the discussion on that particualr area.
Getting started.......hmmmm how do I go about doing that? I know I need you
guys to do it. But lets hear from the rest of you first to see if you are so
inclined and if you think this is a good idea.
Fergus you can post any thing you want you have earned it :)
"Fergus Cooney" <fi*****@post.com> wrote in message
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Hi Scorpion,
Thank you for the compliment ;-)). I know you couldn't list everyone
who makes contributions here, but it's a shame to me that you missed Jay. He
has taught me much and I have great respect for him (despite camelCasing,
lol).
Your idea is certainly an interesting one and I would be willing to
add what I could to the thread. Having a lot of related issues in a single
thread could be of great use for referring people to in due course, and for those
conducting an 'everything you wanted to know about' type of search.
The only downside that I can see is that I'll suddenly discover how
little I know after all!! ;-)) Seriously, though, 'in-depth' takes time and that
could be a limiting factor here.
I'll leave it up to you to create the format and what-have-you and
we'll see what develops. I imagine that question gets an answer which begets a
further question and so on. Maybe there will be lists. Questions may be
specific or fairly open although 'tell me all you know about xxx' may not
get the hoped-for response - being too 'big' to answer. I guess that there may
be a period of frenzy on a topic but that the activity would also tend to
span a fairly long time due to the question-think-answer-think-question cyle.
All-in-all, if this idea takes off it could be very good indeed. :-)
Regards,
Fergus
ps. I will endeavour not to add off-topic posts to these threads, but
can't promise. ;-)
