Many of the people on this list subscribe to many lists in order to
keep on top of changes in important areas of the industry. The noise
is cumulative between lists.
I would gladly accept no traffic on this list for weeks at a time to
cut down on the noise.
This is a list designed to disseminate information. If you want a
'live' discussion, AOL has plenty of chat rooms.
-John
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On Saturday Dec 9, 2000, Jacob Nikom wrote:
> For the last 3 days it was about 20 messages on the java-linux list.
> Two or three of them (including responses) were generic. It is not
> huge traffic, comparing with one couple of years ago.
>
> I would be more concern that we have not enough questions. If this
> is the case, the mailing list is dying.
>
> Do you think there is real abuse of the list?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jacob Nikom
>
> Matt Welsh wrote:
>
> > In recent weeks we have seen a large number of non-Linux related Java
> > questions on this list. While I suppose there is little that can be done
> > to prevent that, I'd like to propose that replies to those questions
> > be sent directly to the person asking, rather than the whole list.
> >
> > There are a few people on the list who make a point to reply to every
> > non-Linux-related question. While I'm glad that they are willing to
> > provide that support, I think it would be best not to send the replies
> > to the whole list. The large amount of non-Linux traffic renders the
> > 'java-linux' list almost ineffective for discussions about Java on Linux.
> > If we can throttle those discussions I think the list would clear up and
> > be more effective for its original purpose.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Matt Welsh, UC Berkeley
> >
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