I would say that I agree with Robert on this issue. I also represent a team of at least 15 Java developers that uses IDEA on the daily basis. Newsgroup takes away a lot of the nice features of email. Please kindly reconsider this.
Thanks,
Mike Liu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert Hedin
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 2:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Eap-list] IMPORTANT: Newsgroups
Let me preface this with the fact that I have, personally, licensed and paid
for IntelliJ and have planned on shifting my company's development group to
using it as well.
That said, I am not in favour of having sole access to the kinds of
information provided for by the existing mailing lists converted to news
groups.
Currently, the mailing list is proactive- that is, if someone has a problem,
bug, fix, whatever I am notified with some semblance of timeliness. A
message shows up in my in-box, is appropriately routed automatically to an
IntelliJ folder and is flagged for me to look at. If I am busy, this still
happens in the background. I can get an idea of the severity of problems in
a given release by watching the number of new mails go up. This is very
easy, and keeps me informed in a very timely manner.
Conversely, sole access via news groups is reactive. In order to access the
news groups I have to physically make an effort to do so. In a worse case
scenario, I may have to wait until I am home and able to access the news
feed. This means that there is a good chance I won't check, simply because
the last thing I want to do when I stop working is get on the computer yet
again.
Speaking from personal experience, I tend to review news groups religiously
at first, then stop due to the extra hassle and time it takes. I,
personally, have no problem keeping all my email archived, including those
from mailing lists, and using that as a first stop to finding answers to
problems.
Bear in mind that I am not saying that you shouldn't have a newsgroup, only
that I would prefer that it not replace the current mailing lists, but
rather act as a different means of accessing the exact same information.
rob.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Belyaev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 2:49 PM
Subject: [Eap-list] IMPORTANT: Newsgroups
> Hi all,
>
> We now have a news server located at news.intellij.net which has a lot
> of newsgroups. We are planning to shift the main discussion traffic
> there from the eap-list and eap-features mailing lists.
>
> Please use the newsgroups instead of the mailing lists!
>
> The groups related to IntelliJ EAP are:
>
> jetbrains.intellij.eap.general
> jetbrains.intellij.eap.bugs
> jetbrains.intellij.eap.features
> jetbrains.intellij.eap.announcements
> jetbrains.intellij.eap.openapi
>
> The names are self-descriptive, so please post there according to the
> names.
>
> The announcement groups are read-only.
>
> We will have both mailing lists synchronized for some time with the
> eap.bugs and eap.features newsgroups. However, please notice that
> mailman (the mailing list software we use) does not form discussion
> threads with the newgroup server for messages posted to the mailing
> list. So it's not recommended to post to the mailing lists if possible.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Eugene Belyaev
> JetBrains, Inc / IntelliJ Software
> http://www.intellij.com
> "Develop with pleasure"
>
>
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