>> Actually I don't believe I am. I believe some people in this forum have
>> experience with ASP. You might not but other people may have. Don't
assume
>> everybody is like you. Web Professionals consider all technologies in
order
>> to maximize their opportunities. Sure some people may have recently
migrated
>> to JSP 1.0 but that doesn't mean they cannot provide assistance WRT to
ASP
>> resources based on previous experience.
>
>Actually, I think you are. Some people may have experience with DNS,
Sybase,
>Linux, cross-country skiing or gormet cooking, but that doesn't mean this
is
>the right place to talk about those subjects. This list has enough traffic
>without bringing up ASP. 'Web Professionals' should not be surprised when
>they get chided for posting off-topic messages to a specific mailing list.
I have to side with Robert on this one. He didn't ask about DNS or
cross-country skiing, he asked about a subject that most professionals would
agree is reasonably close to the topic of this list. Questions about
comparing JSP to ASP seem well within the purview of this list to me, so why
should a simple request for an ASP book recommendation be shouted down?
Besides, this list has fielded questions about servlets and even general
Java programming with no complaints. It's not like Robert asked some newbie
question about how to get the user's birthday using ASP. 'Web Professionals'
should be able to distinguish truly off-topic from slightly related, and not
insist on an extremely narrow definition of what's appropriate on a
wide-audience mailing list. They should also know that the proper way to
deal with what they believe is an inappropriate posting is to send a PRIVATE
email to the offender, rather than adding to the unnecessary traffic by
posting to the whole group. (You can call me a hypocrite on that point, but,
you know, he started it :-).
--Jim Preston
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