I like the idea of the seperate mailing lists as most places I've seen this
in use have worked well (FreeBSD's mail list setup is a great example).
JSP-Technical
JSP-Announce
JSP-Questions
JSP-IDE
-- end of serious ones
JSP-GratuitousAdvertisingPostings
At least with these you can filter 90% of what you don't want to see by
simply not subscribing. This doesn't stop excessive cross-posters from
annoying you but at least its better (IMO) than JSP-EverythingAndAnything.
Regards,
Joe.
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Joe Shevland
Turnaround Solutions Pty. Ltd.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.TurnAround.com.au
::-----Original Message-----
::From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference
::[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Archie Russell
::Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 7:18 AM
::To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
::Subject: Re: Is this list getting too big?
::
::
::Yeah, our "moderator" let HAPPY99 slip through...
::
::On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Rod McChesney wrote:
::
::> 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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