Robert Simmons wrote:
Looking at http://jakarta.apache.org/mail/tomcat-user/ as an example, I see the gzipped archive of email communication over the past few months averages from 2 to 3 MB / month. That's a lot of messages, coming from a lot of users. On http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&r=1&w=2, this translates from 2500 to 3500 messages a month.When we consider that at least 90% of Jakarta users are not Jakarta developers but will often have a question or an important insight, than the folly of communicating only in mailing lists becomes clear.
I don't frequest many webbased forums, but I doubt the web paradigm will be scalable enough to offer easy access to this amount of information.
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