On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:07:12 +0100 (Subject: Re: Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 -- May-June 2003) Thom May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why the obsession with email? > We have a (pretty good ;-) ) webserver. Why don't we have a web page? > www.apache.org/news/monthly or something. > http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ by way of prior art. > Update that page, and send the letter to a *dedicated* list if so desired. > Judoing a non-related list into handling this is not the right approach. 1. "Jakarta Newsletter" has the web page version. e.g. -- Issue 9 -- http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200305.html (97827byte) E-mail version's size was 33226byte. If the "Jakarta Newsletter" will be sublimated to "the Apache Newsletter", http://www.apache.org/newsletter/ or somewhere might be preferable. 2. I do not think that the httpd protocol is prior to SMTP/POP and vice versa. There are many people who love e-mails as well as web pages. I think giving opportunities for people to read the newsletter via web page as well as e-mail is preferable. 3. There are many people who are *passive* as well as *active*. People in the tendency of passive will not actively see the website maybe, however, e-mail might be able to stir up the *awareness*/*imagination* for something. I hope/believe that these kind of *awareness* will come to fruition of the *cross-pollination* and *breakthrough* in technology as well as in community's growth (ASF-wide community's growth). 4. Personally, I do not like the old-fashioned controversy like 'Linux is prior to XX-OS', 'Java is prior to XX-Language', etc. Stiring up the *awareness* is important, and *sublimation* is great. *sublimation* -- "A Patchy" spirits! 5. I am subscribing to 50 or more mailing lists and I receive over 500 mails per day. However, I do not feel that *XX mail is annoying* or any because I have know-hows on dealing with e-mails properly. (Plus: I've experienced the moderation of over 30 mailing list at the same time) Needless e-mails?? -- just setting up mail client to push these mails to trash box automatically, using regular expressions. I think "E-mail" has two aspects/functions: i) information: FLOW ii) information: STOCK Too much exaggeration of the *bandwidth* will end up with the result of the lack of the important ii), I think. Sincerely, -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
