Dan,
My guess would be the publicity given in the
new 'Servlet' based books.
Another management option is to search the topic
headers for 'contains "JSP"' and forward to
another mail folder (assuming you have filtering
capability on your mailbox).
Art
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Subject: Re: Is this list getting too big?
Historically this list has not been so active. I'm actually curious as to
what publicity has caused the sudden upswell of mailings?
Dan
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> Reply To: Ted Syrett
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 1:30 PM
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> Subject: Re: Is this list getting too big?
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> Hi Norm,
>
> I'm a new subscriber to this list, within the past week, and already I
> have
> the same reaction you expressed. The solution, to me, appears to be a
> Usenet newsgroup. That has two advantages over a Majordomo list for
> topics of broad and lasting interest:
>
> 1. Right away, you can separate the activity of reading email (which
> resembles catching up with voicemail) from that of scanning the
> newsgroup (which is more like reading a magazine).
> 2. You can take the convenience level a step farther by using a Web-
> based service such as DejaNews, Newsguy or RemarQ; these
> outfits archive several days' worth of most newsgroups' activity
> and make it easy to pick out only what most interests you.
>
> I can see that there's a "comp.lang.java.beans" already out there, but
> no "comp.lang.jsp". Any volunteers to start such a group?
>
> Ted Syrett
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>
> Norman Katz wrote:
>
> > Today I received 45 messages in my JSP inbox.
> > It seems as though this list is getting very big over
> > the past week or so. It's great that interest is
> > starting to peak, but I'd like to suggest to the
> > moderator to consider breaking it into sub-topics.
> >
> > There are a number of emails dealing with product
> > promotions that would best be handled in a side-band
> > forum. Also, it would help to move the ASP vs. JSP
> > stuff over at this point since this is IMHO rudimentary.
> > If anyone else has suggestions for how to
> > subdivide the list, perhaps we can come to a consensus.
> >
> > In any case, it may be time for the moderator to become
> > more selective about what gets posted and what doesn't at
> > this point. It would certainly help me out to know that
> > I only need to review the pure technical postings each day.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Norm
> >
> >
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