move user lists to mail.html from mail2.html? [WAS Re: mail2.html - mail.html]

2003-07-29 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 02:15 AM, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:

Thank you for the comment, Robert.

TO tell the truth, my original motivation to arise this
issue was concering to the upcoming newsletter.
I published the final Jakarta Newsletter in early
this month and I found I made some mistakes. Also,
there was something which I got aware:
1

I've forgot to append the URL of Apache Ant. There might
be someone who came to jakarta-general, not knowing
that Ant had been separated and have own mailng lists.
2

I wrote:
'If you would like to comment further on any of the highlighted
discussions then please do so on the appropriate list [4],

 [4] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html'
However, at the same time I felt guilty about this .. thinking
Oh, how user unfriendly I am!
i've been thinking about this and i think that maybe there's a way to 
change the pages that will improving things for users whilst still 
preventing problems with people not reading the rules. this is really only 
a major problem for developer lists.

maybe we could try moving the user lists to the bottom of the first page 
and then leave the link to the developer lists on the second page. maybe 
the extra space could be used to add some links that of interest for 
potential contributors.

- robert

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Re: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-22 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 20:02:57 +0100
Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I was dead against this when Tetsuya first raised the issue,
 I'm still dead against this, and likely to remain so until someone
 can explain to me why it would be better than what we currently have.

1.

Current pages are user-*un*friendly:
My proposal is user-friendly:

*user* means future developer, who might devote to the
jakarta activities and the ASF activities in the future.

I can not find any good reasons to keep current pages unchanged,
in other words.

2.

Please see Andrew and Henri's comments. These implied the *reason*
what you wanted, I think.

 What we have is (as far as I'm aware) the result of responding to the
 actions of people in respect of the mailing lists, and intended to reduce
 the amount of brain-dead misuse. I'd worrry that changing it would
 re-introduce problems.

I am not sure whether all the subscribers have read the guideline
completely and have respect to mailing lists.

If they are wise enough and given that people had read mail.html page, 
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/micromail.html
would not have dead linked pages * at all*, I think.
(This page is now linked by site/mail.html, as you all can see.
And .. sorry I do not use any mail clients/ servers created by MS, so
I won't/can't apply any changes to this page)

Also, I am not sure whether it would re-introduce problems. Aren't
there any alternative method which fulfill these two? :
1.  Keep User-Friendli-ness
2.  Avoid Trouble
I suggested various approaching methods in the past. Probably,
there might be much *better* way.

 If there is an issue with lists being hard to find, or instructions
 unclear lets hear it.

*chicken* and *egg*. Who felt hardness to find *appropriate list*
won't come to this list and can not comment to your line. You'll
not be able to hear their voices.

Also,
it takes at least 10-30 seconds to find the *appropriate*
lists out even though using *Ctrl+F* at current site/mail2.html.
What would happen after directly, simply indicating the *appropriate*
lists??? (again)
e.g.   http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#general

--

I think the policy of Apache (Jakarta) might have had A Patchy
spirits, providing experimental space for all the people.

There are no reason for letting the beginners feel unease, enforce
them to wander off and get lost in the jakarta desert.
Why not adopting Easy to entry: Learn more here approaching method??



I am trying to reduce the user-*un*friendli-ness from jakarta gradually...


Sincerely,

-- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])



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RE: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-22 Thread Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro
Hi Tetsuya,

What is wrong with the pages as they are? There are thousands of people who
have subscribed to the lists using the current method, and luckily there are
not too many misdirected posts.

Furthermore, a search for jakarta mailing lists
http://www.google.com/search?q=jakarta+mail+archivessourceid=mozilla-search
start=0start=0
takes you straight to mail2.html.

I still fail to see the problem -- it is good to make future posters go
through a little extra effort. There are many important issues to tackle,
please don't waste your time with this one.

(Where is Jon Stevens when you need him?)

Un saludo,

Alex.


Re: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-22 Thread robert burrell donkin
jakarta came round to having two pages for mail subscriptions after having 
years of regular problems with people joining the lists who had no idea 
about how to behave. the pages are user unfriendly but the old solution 
(ie publically and vocally humiliating posters on list) was worse (since 
it discouraged many lurkers with valuable opinions from speaking out for 
fear of being shot down in flames).

i don't think that reading through a page of instructions is too much to 
ask for the benefit of the community not having to waste time and energy 
shooting down ignorant and disruptive posters. one proof that this policy 
works is that the last occasion that i can remember this being necessary 
was with somebody who'd subscribed via news.

i would support a move of the other information on the deeper page (about 
the archives, for example) to a better location. i'd also be happy to 
support some alternative system (maybe using ezmlm) which was equally 
effective. i'd also support any sub-project who was happy about being 
listed on the front page being moved there.

- robert

On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:50 AM, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 20:02:57 +0100
Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was dead against this when Tetsuya first raised the issue,
I'm still dead against this, and likely to remain so until someone
can explain to me why it would be better than what we currently have.
1.

Current pages are user-*un*friendly:
My proposal is user-friendly:
*user* means future developer, who might devote to the
jakarta activities and the ASF activities in the future.
I can not find any good reasons to keep current pages unchanged,
in other words.
2.

Please see Andrew and Henri's comments. These implied the *reason*
what you wanted, I think.
What we have is (as far as I'm aware) the result of responding to the
actions of people in respect of the mailing lists, and intended to reduce
the amount of brain-dead misuse. I'd worrry that changing it would
re-introduce problems.
I am not sure whether all the subscribers have read the guideline
completely and have respect to mailing lists.
If they are wise enough and given that people had read mail.html page,
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/micromail.html
would not have dead linked pages * at all*, I think.
(This page is now linked by site/mail.html, as you all can see.
And .. sorry I do not use any mail clients/ servers created by MS, so
I won't/can't apply any changes to this page)
Also, I am not sure whether it would re-introduce problems. Aren't
there any alternative method which fulfill these two? :
1.  Keep User-Friendli-ness
2.  Avoid Trouble
I suggested various approaching methods in the past. Probably,
there might be much *better* way.
If there is an issue with lists being hard to find, or instructions
unclear lets hear it.
*chicken* and *egg*. Who felt hardness to find *appropriate list*
won't come to this list and can not comment to your line. You'll
not be able to hear their voices.
Also,
it takes at least 10-30 seconds to find the *appropriate*
lists out even though using *Ctrl+F* at current site/mail2.html.
What would happen after directly, simply indicating the *appropriate*
lists??? (again)
e.g.   http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#general
--

I think the policy of Apache (Jakarta) might have had A Patchy
spirits, providing experimental space for all the people.
There are no reason for letting the beginners feel unease, enforce
them to wander off and get lost in the jakarta desert.
Why not adopting Easy to entry: Learn more here approaching method??


I am trying to reduce the user-*un*friendli-ness from jakarta gradually..
.
Sincerely,

-- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])



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Re: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-21 Thread Martin Cooper


On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Michael Davey wrote:

 Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:

 No, my original intention was derived from just this simple question:
 Why doesn't each subprojects' left-side navi point to the *appropriate*
 section in mail2.html?
 
 
 I was dead against this when Tetsuya first raised the issue, but I think

Like Danny, I still am.

 I am coming round to Tetsuya's way of thinking.  Perhaps ezmlm could be
 changed so that the confirm subscription and welcome email messages
 start with some text similar to that used on the mail.html page.

I'm sure it could. But people would completely ignore that text. That's
exactly the point of having mail and mail2 separated as they are.

  Additionally, the -dev lists could warn that -user should be used for
 questions including developer questions, where appropriate.  Some Apache
 lists already do one or both of these, but many don't do either.

You mean the lists themselves, or the people on them? The struts-dev list
gets a fair number of messages that should have been sent to struts-user
instead, and it's really pretty annoying. The more we can do to get people
to use the right list in the first place, the better.


 Hopefully few novices will be inclined to post to a list without first
 subscribing

They may subscribe, but they are also likely to ignore any instructions
they are given, even if those instructions are repeated at the end of
every message to the list. How many times have you seen unsubscribe
messages on lists whose message footers include the instructions?

 (I know that many here do post to lists to which they aren't
 subscribed, which is fine as they aren't new to the community, so they
 know what to do and what not to do).

  In any case, I don't think we can
 protect ourselves completely from fools ;)

Sad but true. ;-(

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Re: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-20 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 06:19 AM, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:

Hi all,

I am wondering how it might be if deleting
jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html and putting all
the contents to jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html
All the Apache TLPs (Top Level Projects) do not separate
the mail list explanation pages like jakarta, AFAICS.
cf. http://ant.apache.org/mail.html
http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html
I think that each subprojects can indicate the direct/appropriate
subscribe/unscribe section from each subprojects' pages.
(Now: e.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#tomcat
future: e.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html#tomcat)
Any thoughts?
I think the motivation is to force people to read the first page before 
they get to the second.

geir

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Re: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 06:21:13 -0400
Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I think that each subprojects can indicate the direct/appropriate
  subscribe/unscribe section from each subprojects' pages.
  (Now: e.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#tomcat
  future: e.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html#tomcat)
 
  Any thoughts?
 
 I think the motivation is to force people to read the first page before 
 they get to the second.

Yes, I think so. However, there are many many mailing list in
mail2.html and we did not point out the *appropriate* mail
list in the past, it seems.
(We often use this phrase, subscribe to the *appropriate* lists
... not user-friendly phrase...)

Promoting to point out directly the *appropriate* mail lists
(e.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#tomcat
or http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html#tomcat) might
be better than now, I think.

If httpd, ant or whatever in apache.org had failed to let people read
the MailList *guideline*, I am willing to withdraw my proposal.

Sincerely,

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RE: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-20 Thread Danny Angus
I believe the idea is to make people read the rules first, I wouldn't advise
changing it unless you have a good reason to, if it ain't broke don't fix
it.

d.

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 From: Tetsuya Kitahata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: 20 July 2003 11:20
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: mail2.html - mail.html



 Hi all,

 I am wondering how it might be if deleting
 jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html and putting all
 the contents to jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html

 All the Apache TLPs (Top Level Projects) do not separate
 the mail list explanation pages like jakarta, AFAICS.
 cf. http://ant.apache.org/mail.html
 http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html

 I think that each subprojects can indicate the direct/appropriate
 subscribe/unscribe section from each subprojects' pages.
 (Now: e.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#tomcat
 future: e.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html#tomcat)

 Any thoughts?

 -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])



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Re: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-20 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 11:19 AM, Danny Angus wrote:

I believe the idea is to make people read the rules first, I wouldn't 
advise
changing it unless you have a good reason to, if it ain't broke don't 
fix
it.
Yes, that's what i was trying to hint at :)

+1

d.

-Original Message-
From: Tetsuya Kitahata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 July 2003 11:20
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mail2.html - mail.html


Hi all,

I am wondering how it might be if deleting
jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html and putting all
the contents to jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html
All the Apache TLPs (Top Level Projects) do not separate
the mail list explanation pages like jakarta, AFAICS.
cf. http://ant.apache.org/mail.html
http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html
I think that each subprojects can indicate the direct/appropriate
subscribe/unscribe section from each subprojects' pages.
(Now: e.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#tomcat
future: e.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html#tomcat)
Any thoughts?

-- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])



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Re: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:33:20 -0400
Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I believe the idea is to make people read the rules first, I wouldn't 
  advise
  changing it unless you have a good reason to, if it ain't broke don't 
  fix
  it.
 Yes, that's what i was trying to hint at :)

I know this and the purpose.

Alternatively,

e.g.-site/mail.html
GUIDELINE(#guideline)

(brief description)
.
Tomcat 
 User List
 SubscribeUnsubscribe   ArchiveGuideline(jump to #guideline)
 Dev List 
 SubscribeUnsubscribe   ArchiveGuideline
..


This might be enough, I think.

Sincerely,

-- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 


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Re: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-20 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
The nice thing about the current approach is that you can't get to see 
the links w/o having to have read enough of the first page to 
understand that you have to click through to the next page.

Otherwise, people will just skip down until they find what they want 
and then have missed what is some good prelim info for our community.  
It's not much of a burden on people, as once you've done it, you just 
know to skip to bottom and go to the mail for new lists...

geir

On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:33:20 -0400
Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe the idea is to make people read the rules first, I wouldn't
advise
changing it unless you have a good reason to, if it ain't broke don't
fix
it.
Yes, that's what i was trying to hint at :)
I know this and the purpose.

Alternatively,

e.g.-site/mail.html
GUIDELINE(#guideline)

(brief description)
.
Tomcat
 User List
 SubscribeUnsubscribe   ArchiveGuideline(jump to 
#guideline)
 Dev List
 SubscribeUnsubscribe   ArchiveGuideline
..


This might be enough, I think.

Sincerely,

-- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 

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Re: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-20 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Presently they give up reading it and email me personally.

-Andy

On 7/20/03 11:57 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The nice thing about the current approach is that you can't get to see
 the links w/o having to have read enough of the first page to
 understand that you have to click through to the next page.
 
 Otherwise, people will just skip down until they find what they want
 and then have missed what is some good prelim info for our community.
 It's not much of a burden on people, as once you've done it, you just
 know to skip to bottom and go to the mail for new lists...
 
 geir
 
 On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:
 
 On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:33:20 -0400
 Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I believe the idea is to make people read the rules first, I wouldn't
 advise
 changing it unless you have a good reason to, if it ain't broke don't
 fix
 it.
 Yes, that's what i was trying to hint at :)
 
 I know this and the purpose.
 
 Alternatively,
 
 e.g.-site/mail.html
 GUIDELINE(#guideline)
 
 (brief description)
 .
 Tomcat
  User List
  SubscribeUnsubscribe   ArchiveGuideline(jump to
 #guideline)
  Dev List
  SubscribeUnsubscribe   ArchiveGuideline
 ..
 
 
 This might be enough, I think.
 
 Sincerely,
 
 -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
 
 
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RE: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-20 Thread Henri Yandell

That's all very well and good. But why do I have to read the rules to go
look at the archives?

That frustrates me every time I want to search the archives.

Hen

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Danny Angus wrote:

 I believe the idea is to make people read the rules first, I wouldn't advise
 changing it unless you have a good reason to, if it ain't broke don't fix
 it.

 d.

  -Original Message-
  From: Tetsuya Kitahata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: 20 July 2003 11:20
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: mail2.html - mail.html
 
 
 
  Hi all,
 
  I am wondering how it might be if deleting
  jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html and putting all
  the contents to jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html
 
  All the Apache TLPs (Top Level Projects) do not separate
  the mail list explanation pages like jakarta, AFAICS.
  cf. http://ant.apache.org/mail.html
  http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html
 
  I think that each subprojects can indicate the direct/appropriate
  subscribe/unscribe section from each subprojects' pages.
  (Now: e.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#tomcat
  future: e.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html#tomcat)
 
  Any thoughts?
 
  -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
 
 
 
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Re: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:57:10 -0400
(Subject: Re: mail2.html - mail.html)
Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The nice thing about the current approach is that you can't get to see 
 the links w/o having to have read enough of the first page to 
 understand that you have to click through to the next page.
 
 Otherwise, people will just skip down until they find what they want 
 and then have missed what is some good prelim info for our community.  
 It's not much of a burden on people, as once you've done it, you just 
 know to skip to bottom and go to the mail for new lists...
 
 geir

No, my original intention was derived from just this simple question:
Why doesn't each subprojects' left-side navi point to the *appropriate*
section in mail2.html?

For example, if Jakarta-Poi's website have the direct link
(http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi) in its' left
side navigator, people will not wander the mail.html/mail2.html
and be satisfied surely.

Next, in this situation, I thought the current mail.html
is meaningless, so why not conjoin mail.html and mail2.html?
(Also, please see the sample below)

For me, subscribe/unsubscribe is very easy, because
I remember *-subscribe*/*-unsubscribe* suffix :D

However,
there are many people who can not find the way to
unsubscribe each mailing lists :D, even though
each mails has *appripriate* mail trailer (signature).

Things might be better to become simpler.

Sincerely,

-- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 

 On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:
 
  On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:33:20 -0400
  Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I believe the idea is to make people read the rules first, I wouldn't
  advise
  changing it unless you have a good reason to, if it ain't broke don't
  fix
  it.
  Yes, that's what i was trying to hint at :)
 
  I know this and the purpose.
 
  Alternatively,
 
  e.g.-site/mail.html
  GUIDELINE(#guideline)
  
  (brief description)
  .
  Tomcat
   User List
   SubscribeUnsubscribe   ArchiveGuideline(jump to 
  #guideline)
   Dev List
   SubscribeUnsubscribe   ArchiveGuideline
  ..
  
 
  This might be enough, I think.
 
  Sincerely,
 
  -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 


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Re: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-20 Thread Michael Davey
Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:

No, my original intention was derived from just this simple question:
Why doesn't each subprojects' left-side navi point to the *appropriate*
section in mail2.html?
 

I was dead against this when Tetsuya first raised the issue, but I think 
I am coming round to Tetsuya's way of thinking.  Perhaps ezmlm could be 
changed so that the confirm subscription and welcome email messages 
start with some text similar to that used on the mail.html page. 
Additionally, the -dev lists could warn that -user should be used for 
questions including developer questions, where appropriate.  Some Apache 
lists already do one or both of these, but many don't do either.

Hopefully few novices will be inclined to post to a list without first 
subscribing (I know that many here do post to lists to which they aren't 
subscribed, which is fine as they aren't new to the community, so they 
know what to do and what not to do).  In any case, I don't think we can 
protect ourselves completely from fools ;)

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RE: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-20 Thread Danny Angus
 I was dead against this when Tetsuya first raised the issue,

I'm still dead against this, and likely to remain so until someone can
explain to me why it would be better than what we currently have.

What we have is (as far as I'm aware) the result of responding to the
actions of people in respect of the mailing lists, and intended to reduce
the amount of brain-dead misuse. I'd worrry that changing it would
re-introduce problems.

If there is an issue with lists being hard to find, or instructions unclear
lets hear it.

d.

 but I think
 I am coming round to Tetsuya's way of thinking.  Perhaps ezmlm could be
 changed so that the confirm subscription and welcome email messages
 start with some text similar to that used on the mail.html page.
  Additionally, the -dev lists could warn that -user should be used for
 questions including developer questions, where appropriate.  Some Apache
 lists already do one or both of these, but many don't do either.

 Hopefully few novices will be inclined to post to a list without first
 subscribing (I know that many here do post to lists to which they aren't
 subscribed, which is fine as they aren't new to the community, so they
 know what to do and what not to do).  In any case, I don't think we can
 protect ourselves completely from fools ;)

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 Michael



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Re: mail2.html - mail.html

2003-07-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 18:48:16 +0100
(Subject: Re: mail2.html - mail.html)
Michael Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:
 
 No, my original intention was derived from just this simple question:
 Why doesn't each subprojects' left-side navi point to the *appropriate*
 section in mail2.html?
 I was dead against this when Tetsuya first raised the issue, but I think 
 I am coming round to Tetsuya's way of thinking.  Perhaps ezmlm could be 
 changed so that the confirm subscription and welcome email messages 
 start with some text similar to that used on the mail.html page. 
  Additionally, the -dev lists could warn that -user should be used for 
 questions including developer questions, where appropriate.  Some Apache 
 lists already do one or both of these, but many don't do either.

Thank you. I think so. If possible, additional mail trailer (footer)
might be preferable.

These below are *sample* of the mail (message) trailers.
Any comments, improvements are welcomed :D

e.g. Jakarta-General
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Mailing List Guidelines :http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html

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 In any case, I don't think we can protect ourselves completely from
 fools ;)

Ditto :D

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