Strange that you should mention that ;-) Yes, this list is mirrored on gmane.
However, I agree with Henri: The extremely low signal/noise ratio on this list prevents me from subscribing to the list directly. Of course, I consider a lot of this to be just the growing pains of a new project (as frustrating as it is for the rest of us :-). "James Strachan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can read apache mail via NNTP if thats what people want to do. > (Dunno if this particular list is on there yet but most other ones are). > > http://gmane.org/ > > For those of us who prefer to use their email reader - always using a > good [prefix] on subjects can help. Over time when all the modules are > in CVS we'll be able to use the [moduleName] as a good prefix - then > folks only interested in mail relating to one or two modules can filter > their email easily. > > > On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 08:05 am, Jason Dillon wrote: > > > Its too bad, discussions of this size really warrant a more organized > > message system, like NNTP... but I have no idea if anyone at Apache is > > looking into this, or already has it implemented. NTTP is much easier > > to manage wrt, sub contexts as well as reduces general net traffic, as > > every single message is not duplicated to each subscribers mail box. > > > > --jason > > > > > > On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 07:17 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > >> > >> Different issue Alan. > >> > >> What I'm after are sub-lists. ie) > >> > >> geronimo-dev mail list then: > >> [general] or [spec] etc. > >> > >> At Jakarta Commons we have slowly managed to get the Developer list to > >> abide by this, though no the User list 100% of the time. Although I > >> [and > >> someone else] suggested such a thing for Geronimo, the sheer number of > >> people here means it's unlikely it'll manage to learn to abide by > >> informal > >> rules [my opinion from the Commons community]. > >> > >> Even if it is, the only way to make it adhere is to define a solid > >> set of > >> sub-contexts and publish these [wiki, whereever]. Or to push off > >> separate > >> lists [which damages the development of the community, but so does too > >> much noise]. > >> > >> For your problem, have you tried filtering on a header? That's the > >> preferred way. However I often find myself forgetting and filtering > >> on the > >> Reply-To. > >> > >> Hen > >> > >> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Alan Cabrera wrote: > >> > >>> I requested a similar thing in that I asked for this discussion to be > >>> labeled [geronimo-dev] so that I can spot it from the tons of junk > >>> emails > >>> that are sent to me and the response that I basically got was that > >>> it's too > >>> bad the my emailer sucks so bad. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Alan > >>> OpenEJB Developer > >>> > >>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>> From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> > >>>> I'm not sure if others are finding this too, but I'm > >>>> definitely looking forward to a time when the mail list gets > >>>> nice and organised about either having multiple lists or > >>>> having an obvious separation of concepts with good use of > >>>> [xxx] markers. > >>>> > >>>> I'm used to getting a lot of mail list traffic into my inbox, > >>>> and yet I'm starting to treat the list as a lot of white-noise. > >>>> > >>>> Any need for improvements, or am I just being a wimp? > >>>> > >>>> Hen > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > James > ------- > http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ > >
