sufi malak wrote:
> I am so sorry, I did not mean to create a kind discussion, But I am still
> considering myself newbie, it's not easy to learn everything at once, and I
> am doing JSP, javascript, beans with JRUN, all of them are new for me, but
> asking questions from everybody here in this list because I want to learn
> and find solution to my problems, please if anybody fell that I am bothering
> him or her reply and say it, and then I will quit posting in this list.
> Thanks
>
Posting JSP related questions to this list is absolutely not a problem. Please
continue to do so.
Posting questions about *anything* else is outside the boundaries of the list
policy, which you received when you subscribed. These policies are also posted
weekly for everyone to be reminded.
That's the "legalist" response. Now let me give you the personal response to the
issue of off-topic questions (similar to a comment I had to make last week about
this on SERVLET-INTEREST).
As people who recognize my name will tell you :-)I am one of the people that knows
quite a bit about JSP pages and servlets. I like to answer questions about them --
and over the last couple of years I've answered hundreds or thousands of such
questions.
But I absolutely refuse to answer off topic questions (even when I know the
answers, which is often the case). Why? Because politeness and respect are a two
way street, and people who ask (and answer) these questions are being impolite to
those of us who are *only* interested in talking about JSP pages here.
I was out of town from Sunday afternoon through this morning. During that time, my
mailbox accumulated well over 100 messages on JSP-INTEREST. A quick scan of the
subject lines shows me that a depressingly large percentage of them (maybe over
half) are off topic. How likely do you think I am to even bother scanning these
messages so I can find JSP related questions to answer?
You're right ... not very likely. I don't like my time being wasted (there's never
enough time to get done what I have to do -- let alone what I want to do, like
helping people understand JSP). And ignoring this list is not what I want, and I'm
sure it's not what you want.
If you want the people who like to answer these questions to stick around, you need
to respect *our* time. The best way to do that is to find other places to ask
questions about JDBC drivers, date formatting, JavaScript, parsing comma delimited
strings, and all that kind of stuff. The Internet is full of resources for this.
Search engines can help you find them.
But if you have a JSP related question (even partly), this is the right place to
ask. All I ask is, please don't chase me away.
Craig McClanahan
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