The humorous part of all this is the assumption that this list
*has* a moderator...if someone wants to start a newsgroup, have at
it, but don't expect it to happen by itself. The newsgroup-vs-mail
debate erupts on these lists every now and again and always ends up
sticking with email. I believe you can get a digest version if your
mailer won't do filtering.
Rod McChesney, Korobra Corporation
Norman Katz wrote:
>
> Gao Xiaofan wrote:
> > I truly understand that for programmers like Norman, who "only need to review
> > the pure technical postings each day", it is indeed a waste of time to delete
> > the "ASP vs. JSP" stuff every day. I am sorry for this. But for a relatively new
> > technology like JSP, isn't it one of the purposes of this mail list to INTRODUCE
> > the knowledge and know-how to newcomers? There is a need for this.
>
> Gao,
> I didn't mean to apply that I "only" need the technical stuff.
> I just want to separate the philosophical and marketing postings
> from the technical postings. I also get a great deal of knowledge
> reading the marketing postings from members of this list at
> Oracle, IBM, and Sun and I've been able to initiate one-on-one
> conversations with several of them that were even more helpful.
>
> But, it is possible to create separate discussion groups
> that are each more appropriate for the areas in which certain of us
> are interested, e.g., JSP-Technical, JSP-Marketing, JSP-Philosophical,
> JSP-Benchmarks, JSP-Announcements, etc.
>
> Perhaps Ted S. is right that this may be better handled through
> USENET newsgroups. Ideally, if some of our corporate partners
> such as Sun/Javasoft can step up to the plate to help initiate
> this, we could create a more effective forum.
>
> It is clear that many of us have outgrown ASP and are no longer
> willing to stake our reputations on platform-dependent,
> unscalable architectures. JSP and JSP-related solutions will take
> off like a rocket over the next 3-6 months. Having been involved
> in standards committees that need a pure technical forum from
> time-to-time, I am only suggesting that our moderators consider
> the inevitable explosion of the current approach to managing this
> list.
>
> Norm
>
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