Re: Dov's help, Shooting the messenger, Fruitless posts

[TechComm Dood <techcommdood@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Color me unconvinced that simple speculation was enough to precipitate
> Dov's leaving the list. Anyone who didn't want to see the chatter could
> filter on the subject line; Dov wasn't official so he wasn't required
> to read everything posted here. When I "saw" him reading the list &
> answering questions while nominally on vacation, I worried about him
> burning out.

The speculation has been going on for years, and I can't remember a
week in the past year or so in which the question hasn't been brought
up on this list. Sure he could filter it out, as I do, but my guess is
that Dov's received more than his fair share of private e-mails about
it as well.

> Again, I'm unconvinced. My own attempts to take concerns directly
> to Adobe were met with stock non-answers and parroting of the text
> on the website. An Adobe-run list would have likely shut down a
> "speculation" thread. So if an "independent user-oriented mailing
> list" isn't the place to talk about the future of a product, then
> I'm stumped for a more appropriate venue. 

Well, I doubt people in your lunchroom like to hear people whining
about their car repairs or impending divorces either. Same scenario,
only this is online.

> A lot of the Mac-specific
> chatter already moved to Paul Findon's list, BTW, and the threads
> here & on FrameUsers were already showing signs of winding down &
> would have been naught but background noise by next week.

Possibly, but that's not an excuse to warrant the behavior, is it?

> And, I would point out, a simple comment from Adobe PR -- "we have
> shut down MacOS development for FrameMaker, but intend to continue
> developing Windows and Solaris versions for the foreseeable future"
> for example -- would have killed all speculation.

There was a press release.

To each their own though...

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