Re: IMPORTANT: A temporary list for Strategic

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> >Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >
> >>1. Yet none of you are marketers. You are developers.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Why do you say that? I think everyone on this list is interested in
> >marketing (or they would not be here), and all the people involved in
> >this thread have already done a fair share of work for that.
> >
> >
> >
> I think you are missing my point. You by trade (I believe) are a
> developer. I by trade am
> a Consultant. Ron (I think that was his name) by trade is a marketing
> guy. That does not
> mean that each person can not deliver valid information to the project
> but it does mean
> we all think and process a little different.
>
> Personally, I like to hack, but I do not like to progam. Thus I hire
> programmers to service
> my customers long term programming needs. I like to sell, but can't
> stand the sales process. Thus I have
> a salesman to handle that.
>
> Each person has a particular talent that they are strong in. I have yet
> to meet a person who's
> strong suit is marketing/sales that could handle the amount of
> divergance that happens on a
> mailing list, including my own salesman.
>
> That is why I think that a directed list, temporarily will provide a
> boon to productivity to the
> overall project.

But what you argue above leaves that 'directed list' as being only Ron,
since the rest of us aren't "marketers" ... wouldn't it just be simpler
for Ron to email himself directly then?

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