Well, I agree.
Let me try to get my point across a little more constructively.
I have been monitoring this list for some time, and for the most part a lot
of good info/questions are sent.
Unfortunately, it seems lately that two things have occurred:
a) the volume of messages is way up
b) a lot of those messages have to do with setting up particular
environments, people having
problems using related products with JSP and the like
Clearly I am not the first to notice a) or comment on it. A digest was
recently suggested by
someone, and I agree with them that it is becoming tedious to wade through
the sheer volume of messages sent.
I think besides a digest, it would be useful if a newsgroup existed that
archived the JSP-INTEREST maillist, so that some people, like myself, could
browse it at will instead of
having it dominate their inbox.
Besides the sheer volume of messages, it seems to me that there are two
categories of discusssions that occur quite frequently, those that discuss
JSP from a design-level like the philosophical discussions arguing
scriptlets or tags, and those that discuss it from an implementation level,
generally people having problems with one particular environment or another.
I wish I could just be privy to the first set of discussions, because I am
not interested in the environment problems of others. Other people may be,
and that is fine. I just wish there were a
seperation so that I could focus on the discussions that are important to
me.
Let me close by saying that I think I am not alone in sharing the sentiment
that it is difficult to glean useful information from this list, which seems
to me to detract from the intent of the list in the first place.
-taylor
----- Original Message -----
From: Kirkdorffer, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 12:23 PM
Subject: RE: Newbie questions
> Taylor,
>
> Without commenting on the suggestion, I would disaggree on the comment
that
> this list contains "useless garbage". Although some postings might appear
> useless to some, none of the postings fall in the category of "garbage".
>
> What definitely would be helpful is that people try to maintain meaningful
> subjects when they email. Certainly "Newbie Questions" isn't going to be
> terribly instructive to someone wishing to skip one post or another.
>
> Dan
>
> > ----------
> > From: Lastname Firstname[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:57 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Newbie questions
> >
> > Is there a possibility of making two seperate lists?
> >
> > 1) Discussion of JSP architectural issues, direction of JSP,
> > other intelligent discussion
> >
> > and
> >
> > 2) Problems running jserv, problems running jrun, problems running
> > the .92 reference spec on nt, problems running 1.0 reference
> > implementaion on Solaris, problems running 1.0 reference
> > implementation on NT, problems running 1.0 reference on
> > Linux, problems running 1.0 reference on Commodore 64, problems
> > running JSP because your CLASSPATH isn't set up properly,
> > problems writing code because you didn't read the spec, problems
> > writing code because you don't know how to code, . . .
> >
> > I'm sorry, but being on this list is becoming extremely frustrating,
> > the S/N ratio is significantly down, and I am tired of wading thru
> > message after message of useless garbage.
> >
> > -taylor gautier
> >
> >
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