Re: [OT] FileMaker Pro - best mailing list? [PART 02 of 02]
Re: [OT] FileMaker Pro - best mailing list? [PART 02 of 02]
- Subject: Re: [OT] FileMaker Pro - best mailing list? [PART 02 of 02]
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 20:38:42 -0400
On or about 7/1/03 12:39 PM, Bill Briggs wrote:
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I know there are some high end FileMaker Pro people who hang out
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here. I want to join one or two FileMaker Pro lists, but it would
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appear that there is a plethora, so I'm wondering if the voice of
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experience can recommend the better of the lot from those listed
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below (the list was taken from the FileMaker web site support
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section).
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TIA
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FileMaker Pro CGI Talk
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Lasso Talk
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FileMaker Pro Talk
These three I have found to be of little use to me, particularly, and
generally unimpressive for range of topic. However, if you plan to
implement the commercial tools that these lists highlight (Lasso and
Lasso-related) then you would surely want to check in. The folks on these
lists are often also on the Darmouth list, and I do not meant to suggest
that either they, or their skills, are not impressive. I just refer to the
topics, and their applicability to our uses.
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Web Broadcasting Corporation
A sluggish and not overly interesting (to or for me) list; focused
specifically on the usage of FileMaker as a data server.*
(* Something that I am less and less convinced is all that useful, or
sustainable, frankly, as one could learn to speak Hungarian in less time
than one could learn yet another proprietary Markup Language.
FileMaker/CDML does not offer near the speed, universality in hosting, ease
of use, support or feature set of MySQL, for example.)
(However, it is my experience that a Mac server, running NetCloak and
FileMaker, can make a damned fine -- if slow-ish -- web/database
combination.)
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FM Pro's Discussion
Web-based forum, but at least there is no mandatory registration (i.e.
another password to remember). Since my experience was not recent, I trucked
it on over there to see if any of the Dartmouth list folks were there as
well. I didn't see any. That does not mean a thing, I realize, but the
topics I saw seemed much more like the kinds of question one has if one
hasn't read the fairly informative online help in FileMaker. "how do I
print on postcards" and the like.
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FileMaker Community on Yahoo
While I do not have direct experience with this group from this service, I
have participated in others. I do not like the ads (although there is an
Entourage script to strip them, certainly portable to your own email client
by one such as yourself); I do not like the upfront privacy statement from
Yahoo that groups are marketing paths to "get to you."
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edFM
[New to me, but I am heading their now. It looks interesting]
--
Gary
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