No that's where your wrong this is a discussion list about Java Server
Pages nothing more and nothing less. And for those of you who ignored
the link I posted yesterday as to what Craig McClanahan had to say on
the matter I have taken the time to paste it.  For your ease of use and
convenience and all. . .

You guys remember him right?  -The really smart and eminently helpful
Sun Engineer? Giving probably some of the best most complete answers.

<quote>
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

</quote>



----- Original Message -----
From: "Richie Bab A. Boyboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 8:13 am
Subject: Re: extra urgent problem

> You know what Joseph, you do not need to be rude to this guy. He
> just wants to
> know if anyone of us knows the answer to his problem. OK. Now if
> you do not know
> the problem you can either advice the person where to seek help.
> This is a
> discussion group that will help people solve their problems, not
> to create one.
>
>
>
> Joseph Ottinger wrote:
>
> > What does this have to do with JSP? The FTP *port* is, as
> always, 21 (if
> > you're talking about the standard FTP port.) As far as sftp -
> don't know
> > what that is, look it up yourself.
> >
> > >From: sandarbh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Reply-To: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and
> > >     reference <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Subject: extra urgent problem
> > >Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:05:41 +0100
> > >
> > >Dear all,
> > >
> > >I want to send a xml file in sftp to a ftp server. what port i
> have to
> > use,
> > >We are using NSFTP as FTP server.
> > >
> > >sandarbh
> > >
> >
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