Re: off topic (code problem)

1999-11-02 Thread schen
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Yohans Mendoza wrote: > here's the piece, plese help > > public STable(Vector fieldsv, Vector rowsv) > { > originalRows = (Vector)rowsv.clone(); > rows = (Vector)rowsv.clone(); > ... > } > now, the problem is that when

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Drawing Package Required For Java Linux Web Graphics

1999-09-02 Thread peter pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's the URL. Seems pretty busy, I'll try to download it tonight. > > http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html > Thanks Now I am going to roll with killustrator-0.6.tar.gz (standalone version) Peter P ---

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Drawing Package Required For Java Linux Web Graphics

1999-09-01 Thread jerry
Here's the URL. Seems pretty busy, I'll try to download it tonight. http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html -Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Drawing Package Required For Java Linux Web Graphics

1999-09-01 Thread peter pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > peter pilgrim wrote: > > > > The GIMP is great for photo image editing. > > > > But does anybody where I can find a decent drawing illustrator package > > for Linux? > > What do you want from "decent"? StarOffice includes a drawing tool. It's > not anywhere near the lev

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Drawing Package Required For Java Linux Web Graphics

1999-09-01 Thread Nathan Meyers
peter pilgrim wrote: > > The GIMP is great for photo image editing. > > But does anybody where I can find a decent drawing illustrator package > for Linux? What do you want from "decent"? StarOffice includes a drawing tool. It's not anywhere near the level of CorelDraw and such, but it's got ca

Re: [Off-topic] Drag-n-drop applet?

1999-08-12 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, I'll just answer my own post in case anyone else is interested. I wrote a little Drag-n-drop handler for JDK1.1. It just does intra-jvm dnd, but that's all I need anyways, and as far as I can see doing anything would require native code. I made an interface for components that want to do

Re: [Off-topic] Drag-n-drop applet?

1999-08-12 Thread Michael Christiansen
Netscape's IFC (Internet Foundation Classes) support D&D. This is AKO pre-swing library, and lacks the support enjoyed by the swing / bean market. Mike Robb Shecter wrote: > Hi, > > IBM has a set of Java Beans that enable drag and drop for Java 1.1. I'm > checking it out right now to see if i

Re: [Off-topic] Drag-n-drop applet?

1999-08-12 Thread Robb Shecter
Hi, IBM has a set of Java Beans that enable drag and drop for Java 1.1. I'm checking it out right now to see if it'll work in an applet: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/ab.nsf/jbName/E4F2891D1D606E208525674C00682447 - Robb

Re: Off-Topic (JNI)

1999-07-31 Thread dongewijk
Hmmm seems like you try to overload a C function ;-) printf will print a string for you, but not the object you provide it gr. Eric > ... > JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_MyFunction > (JNI Env *env, jobject my_object,jobjectArray my_array) > { > jobject value1 = (*env)->GetObjectArrayElem

Re: Off-Topic (JNI)

1999-07-26 Thread jools enticknap
Hi Hope this code answers your question .. Best of luck. --Jools JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_MyFunction (JNI Env *env, jobject my_object,jobjectArray my_array) { // It's always a good Idea to get the length of the array first. jint len = (*env)->GetArrayLength( my_array ); // Check th

Re: Off-Topic(RH6.0 hangs at boot prompt)

1999-07-03 Thread Christopher Hinds
First of all this is not the proper list to ask these extremly off-topic questions. Secondly this list is about Java on the linux platform please keep the questions on that topic. By the way have you tried www.redhat.com ? cheers Chris "Nagaraj S.B" wrote: > Hi all, > I loaded Linux RedHat6.0

Re: Off-Topic(bzip2 on RH6.0).

1999-07-02 Thread Javier Bolaños Molina
"Nagaraj S.B" wrote: > Hi all, > I have downloaded JDK1.2pre-v2.tar.bz2 from glibc2.1.But in my linux > system which is RH6.0 donot have bzip2 tool for unzipping the JDK1.2 > file but I have gzip.Pls tell me where I can get gzip version of JDK1.2 > or else how can I load bzip2 on my RH6.0. > Than

Re: Off-Topic(bzip2 on RH6.0).

1999-07-02 Thread Deon van der Merwe
Hi, At 10:00 PM 02/07/99 , Nagaraj S.B wrote: >Hi all, >I have downloaded JDK1.2pre-v2.tar.bz2 from glibc2.1.But in my linux >system which is RH6.0 donot have bzip2 tool for unzipping the JDK1.2 >file but I have gzip.Pls tell me where I can get gzip version of JDK1.2 >or else how can I load bzip2

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-26 Thread Ron Braithwaite
> I think u are a little outta date. Compaq appears to be on the way of dropping > Alpha/NT. I also got tired of asking various vendors what other packages are avail > that can run on the alpha . u just cant imagine how hard it is to get 'nt' device > drivers that will work on the alpha. Its exce

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-26 Thread Uncle George
I'm sorry, but u appear to be angry Calvin Austin wrote: > Well you have totally missed that point, I was talking about choice of OS > NT/Solaris/Linux for users, eg I am aware of what I call "intel centrism". When some one says we ported to NT, the intel part is always silent. When someone s

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-26 Thread Anonymous
Uncle George wrote: > > u really r stupid. No, actually, I'm not. > The topic was porting issues, and ur notion that the .java jdk/source code cannot be >altered to fit the port. Do i really need to say more. > gat I only said the platform-independent portions of the jdk source code cannot

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-25 Thread Anonymous
The original statement I made was 1) source for free, 2) JCK not so free, and 3) distribution not so free. the issue with the majority of ur correspondence, was ur inability to understand that u cannot do a port if ur not allowed to modify the '.java' source code. U apparently misled some folks

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-25 Thread Anonymous
Calvin Austin wrote: > I would just like to set some facts straight. > > 1. Anyone can get the full java 2 source for research, evaluation and > internal use (which roughly equates to the previous non-commerical license > before). You couldn't get the full source without this license before > Jav

Re: Off Topic: Instalation of Visual Age

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
I have also unziped/untared it in /usr/local and then chown -R user where user is the user you want to run it under, then move the vajide script to ~user/bin and edit that script to give the full path to /usr/local/dir_where_you_put_vaj. Here is my edited script: #

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:19:13 -0700 (PDT), Calvin Austin wrote: > >I would just like to set some facts straight. > >1. Anyone can get the full java 2 source for research, evaluation and >internal use (which roughly equates to the previous non-commerical license >before). You couldn't get the full

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
TED]> > CC: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [off-topic] stop bashing! > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Resent-Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
Please return a long/64 bits Window address. Lemme know what gets stored in in the java int valiable "lets_store_a_32_bit_address", which has the capacity to store 32 bits. I'm sorry, I thought a fairly simply program sample would demonstrate it best. While ur pondering this porting delima, may

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
I'd much perfer that you private porting club become public. Ur hiding behind the NDA, just makes u appear to be in the marketeering pockets os SUN. This can be exemplified by the way that the JDK 1.2 release announcement was made by SUN before any announcements on the normal channels at blackdow

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 07:01:05 -0400, Uncle George wrote: >1) I am not a member of java-linux-porting@blackdown. They are a private > porting club. You have been invited to be part of the effort. The "private" part comes from the fact that we had to sign NDA/Contracts so that we could start wor

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
Jeff Galyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And your point is...? That you're an asshole with a long signature -- Jan-Henrik Haukeland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-22 Thread Anonymous
Uncle George wrote: > > 1) I am not a member of java-linux-porting@blackdown. They are a private porting >club. Then you should be talking to Sun, not java-linux. > 2) I have been porting the Javasoft's non-commercial JDK source for a number of >years.. But just for for alpha/linux. And your

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-22 Thread Anonymous
1) I am not a member of java-linux-porting@blackdown. They are a private porting club. 2) I have been porting the Javasoft's non-commercial JDK source for a number of years.. But just for for alpha/linux. 3) I have also been a member of java-linux@blackdown for a number of years. 4) the change o

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Uncle George wrote: > > > Tell me, did Microsoft alter the published core API to suit their own > sensibilities? I dont know, as I didnt pay much attention. Or did they just > manipulate the back-end services. > As a matter of fact, they did. This is why Sun sued them - they created something

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > But eventually someone is gonna want to try to build a >4gig file ( > > 32bit seeks ) on the alpha/linux box. As file offsets/lengths are specified as 64bits in java.io.{File,RandomAccessFile}, that shouldn't be a problem. Downloading a 200Gig file to a DOS filesyste

Re: Off Topic: Instalation of Visual Age

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:39:43 -0500, Javier =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bola=F1os?= Molina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Javier> Sorry guys I know this is an off topic but the visual age site Javier> doesn't work and I got it (the va for linux) but I need the Javier> instalation instructions It's pretty simple:

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
The distance between the core published API and the actual layer at which system services requests are made, is very far. The is a set of .java routines that just dont get changed, and are common between win&solaris machines. Then there is a set of '.java' routines, that are particular to windoz,

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-20 Thread Anonymous
Actually i pay attention quite well, and observe quite well. The example(s) that i have presented to u dont seem to impress u at all. I am very sorry for u. Can I presume that u havent looked at the diffs provided by the java-linux-porting folks. I guess u'd be perplexed with the modest '.ja

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous
> Cees de Groot writes: Cees> Uncle George: >> Actually u do have to change the '.java' files ( simply for >> practicable convience ). Having extensive experience in porting >> sun's JDK, I find it rather difficult to store 64bits into a >> 32bit java int. Maybe u can rev

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous
Uncle George: >Actually u do have to change the '.java' files ( simply for practicable >convience ). Having extensive experience in porting sun's JDK, I find >it rather difficult to store 64bits into a 32bit java int. Maybe u can >review the java-linux-porting diffs of their 1.2 port. I'd like

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous
Jeff Galyan wrote: > Actually, you don't need to modify the .java files, and in fact, modifying the .java >files is strictly prohibited in the license (as such modifications could potentially >be misconstrued by the licensee as permission to change the apis). The license does >permit personal

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-17 Thread Anonymous
Actually, you don't need to modify the .java files, and in fact, modifying the .java files is strictly prohibited in the license (as such modifications could potentially be misconstrued by the licensee as permission to change the apis). The license does permit personal use of your own port. If

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-17 Thread Anonymous
Thanks, I Think that u will find that 'any' distribution, and completed port now is considered commercial, therefor not for free ( i believe this extends even to yourself, for personel uses ). The Non-Commercial licenses appears to have bitten the dust when this OPENNESS was made. A proper p

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
No, I think you're the one who's confused. The license *you* are referring to is the SCSL - the source license for the VM. I'm referring to the license agreement which accompanies the *add-on* libraries - Java3D, Swing, etc. --Jeff Uncle George wrote: > > I think u need to reread the "open so

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
You mentioned earlier that you had jdk 1.1.8 non-commercial port. We will check out what is happening with the Java 2 version. (myself or Anand) although with Javaone here it make take a week or so to get an answer regards calvin >Therefor for the Alpha/Linux platform I would like: >1) The JCK

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Therefor for the Alpha/Linux platform I would like: 1) The JCK for free for this port 2) distributions for free for this port. gat Calvin Austin wrote: > For all other platforms you are correct. For Linux and the Blackdown port. > > 1) source is free > 2) JCK is free for that port > 3) distribu

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
I think u need to reread the "open source" licensing requirements. They appear to be "commercial" in nature, and monetary in fact. Please extract the particular places from the licenses which states quite clearly that "non-commercial", if there is such a thing anymore, distribution & use is still

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
Your comments assume a desire to distribute the JDK itself. There are no restrictions or fees for distributing the software you develop, nor are you restricted from distributing the *binaries* of add-on libraries you get from Sun (there may be some exceptions on redistributing binary jars of class

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
--- Calvin Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Louis-David I will show you the code! Hop on over to > > http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/products/java2cs > > you can get all the Java 2 source code for no fee. Ah, but what is your definition of free? Here is my example. I was doing a litt

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
For all other platforms you are correct. For Linux and the Blackdown port. 1) source is free 2) JCK is free for that port 3) distribution is free for that port. This is a stepping stone to where Linux can go with Java. I personally want mozilla with a Java 2 VM on Linux. We can get there with th

Re: [off-topic] stop MS bashing please (was: Re: -Xrunhprof:cpu=times)

1999-06-14 Thread Javier Bolaños Molina
Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 01:13:04PM +1000, Chris Kakris wrote: > > Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > > > > > That's because it isn't implemented in pre1 & pre2. It will work with > > > the next release. > > > > Excellent. Thanks. > > > > Chris (kill -9 Microsoft) Kakris

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-14 Thread Uncle George
I think ur notion is somewhat short sighted: 1) The source -> free, 2) The Jck -> No so free ( exceeding bogus claim that ur not smart enough to run the tests, but ur smart enough to port it, which porting, u seem to admit it , is a difficult task ) 3) Distribution -> Not so free. 4) so wheres t

Re: [off-topic] stop MS bashing please (was: Re: -Xrunhprof:cpu=times)

1999-06-14 Thread Robb Shecter
Charles Forsythe wrote: > > > If MS were so powerful > > and monopolistic they would have killed Linux somehow. > > How? It has no parent company to drive out of business... Yeah, I also found this claim to be suspicious. To say: L: Linux Exists Therefore: M: MS is not powerful and monopo

Re: [off-topic] stop MS bashing please (was: Re: -Xrunhprof:cpu=times)

1999-06-14 Thread Robb Shecter
Hi, I find this hard to understand. Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > MS is dominant on the desktop and consumer OS for now simply because its > competition has been so lame and disorganized. Sure, I think that MS has some decent software. Encarta is great. BUT, you just can't ignore MS's pre

Re: [off-topic] stop MS bashing please (was: Re: -Xrunhprof:cpu=times)

1999-06-13 Thread Charles Forsythe
> If MS were so powerful > and monopolistic they would have killed Linux somehow. How? It has no parent company to drive out of business. Every single user is empowered to be a develop, so they can't hire away the project team. Maybe they can just start killing people who use Linux. -- Charle

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-13 Thread Calvin Austin
Louis-David I will show you the code! Hop on over to http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/products/java2cs you can get all the Java 2 source code for no fee. Then make a trip to blackdown.org, you can get Java 2 releases. blackdown has the diffs that I will be linking to make a Java 2 linux s

Re: [off-topic] stop MS bashing please (was: Re: -Xrunhprof:cpu=times)

1999-06-13 Thread Christian Farmer
your O/S even when you don't need it) don't count. -Original Message- From: Louis-David Mitterrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, June 13, 1999 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [off-topic] stop MS bashing please (was: Re: -Xrunhprof:cpu=times)

Re: [off-topic] stop MS bashing please (was: Re: -Xrunhprof:cpu=times)

1999-06-13 Thread Cees de Groot
Louis-Davis Mitterand wrote: >This alone defeats any argument as MS being an "evil empire". Hell, even >MS uses Linux's success to defend themselves in their antitrust trial! > If one company is speaking with two tongues, it is Microsoft. To the judge they say Linux is a threat, to their customers

Re: [off-topic] stop MS bashing please (was: Re: -Xrunhprof:cpu=times)

1999-06-13 Thread Cees de Groot
>[...] OS we all love on this list, but give MS-Office 2000 a test run some day >and you will experience one polished and really well done set of >applications. > Yeah, but my dual P400 is already running Linux, so I don't have the minimum configuration available to test O2K. Cees (kill -HUP Bil

Re: [off-topic] stop MS bashing please (was: Re: -Xrunhprof:cpu=times)

1999-06-13 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 11:45:19AM +0200, Andre van Dijk wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 01:13:04PM +1000, Chris Kakris wrote: > > > Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > > > > > > > That's because it isn't implemented in pre1 & pre2. It will work w

Re: [off-topic] stop MS bashing please (was: Re: -Xrunhprof:cpu=times)

1999-06-13 Thread Andre van Dijk
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 01:13:04PM +1000, Chris Kakris wrote: > > Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > > > > > That's because it isn't implemented in pre1 & pre2. It will work with > > > the next release. > > > > Excellent. Thanks. > > > > Chris (kill

Re: Off topic question..

1999-03-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Ron Resnick wrote: [...] > Now, none of that has any bearing on the original question > of course, ie - would they use blackdown as their point > of departure for Linux-based Java efforts. My own guess, > like Nathan's, is that they would. After all, why on > earth not?? It is

Re: Off topic question..

1999-03-05 Thread Rachel Greenham
Justin Knotzke wrote: > so maybe their attitudes have really changed. I suspect that BEA has not ported > Weblogic to Linux because of it's reluctance to use Blackdown's VM. Ported? Why port? I used Weblogic's JDBC drivers for MS SQL on Linux Blackdown 1.1.7 with no problems whatsoever. Worked

Re: Off topic question..

1999-03-05 Thread Justin Knotzke
Ron Resnick wrote: > > Nathan Meyers wrote: > > Now, none of that has any bearing on the original question > of course, ie - would they use blackdown as their point > of departure for Linux-based Java efforts. My own guess, > like Nathan's, is that they would. After all, why on > earth not?? It

Re: Off topic question..

1999-03-05 Thread Ron Resnick
Nathan Meyers wrote: > > Justin Knotzke wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I see that IBM is porting Websphere to Linux. Are they going to use > > your VM? If not, do you think they are going to port their VM to Linux? > > A look at their site doesn't suggest the existence of a "their VM

Re: Off topic question..

1999-03-03 Thread Nathan Meyers
Justin Knotzke wrote: > > Hi, > > I see that IBM is porting Websphere to Linux. Are they going to use > your VM? If not, do you think they are going to port their VM to Linux? A look at their site doesn't suggest the existence of a "their VM", other than a port of Sun's code to

Re: Off-Topic --

1999-02-27 Thread Brad Pepers
Wayne wrote: > > Hello, > I been trying to give a button two lines to display. How is this done? > Things I tryed.Button mybutton = new Button ( "my\nbutton) ; > Button mybutton = new Button ( "my" + > "\nbutton") ; > Button mybutton = new Butto

Re: Off-Topic --

1999-02-27 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Wayne writes: Wayne> Hello, Wayne> I been trying to give a button two lines to display. How is Wayne> this done? Things I tryed. Wayne> Button mybutton = new Button ( "my\nbutton) ; Wayne> Button mybutton = new Button ( "my" + "\nbutton") ; Wayne> Button mybu

Re: Off-Topic --

1999-02-27 Thread Nathan Buggia
I am not sure that you can do this with a standard Button object. You may need to use a canvas and create your own button class. regards, nate On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Wayne wrote: > Hello, > I been trying to give a button two lines to display. How is this done? > Things I tryed.Button mybutton

Re: OFF-TOPIC - Applets Java and Netscape 4.5

1999-01-19 Thread Carlos Alberto Roman Zamitiz
Sometimes, the problem is Netscape 4.X where X=0,1... don't support JDK1.1.X. You can see Java Console. When you open it, shows JVM's version which is contained in that netscape. But, when Java Console shows JDK1.1.2 DON'T SUPPORT JDK1.1.X. ONLY IF JAVA CONSOLE SHOWS JDK1.1.5 to JDK1.1.7 One tim

Re: OFF-TOPIC - Applets Java and Netscape 4.5

1999-01-18 Thread Martin Stenderup
I've had the same problem.. The classpath from JDK conflicted with Netscapes. I solved it by using a startupscript for Netscape were I specified Netscapes classpath. -- Martin Stenderup

Re: Off-topic: OS/arch combinations

1999-01-17 Thread Weiqi Gao
Dustin Lang wrote: > > I'm going to perform an act of hypocrisy here, by posting an > off-topic question, after mildly flaming others for doing the same... so > shoot me :) ;=- Bang! > [...] I've tested my code on as many machines > as I have access to, but any others people could help me out

Re: Off topic/java dead?

1998-11-30 Thread Alex Rice
On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 17:32:54 + (GMT), Bernd Kreimeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: ... Bernd> I agree that Java is not dead, not by far (just look Bernd> at C++ to see how long these language developments take). Bernd> It's not outright well either, and not because of MS FUD, Bernd> but becaus

Re: [off-topic] Putting codebase in classpath, or equivalent

1998-10-30 Thread Nelson Minar
>I am running some RMI applications on a machine which doesn't have >the necessary classes installed -- the RMI class loader runs out and >grabs the ones that are needed, using the codebase property. That >works great. Yay mobile code! >I wonder if I will have to obtain the javac source and hack

Re: Off-topic issues

1998-10-29 Thread Java News Collector
How about this; Its not Ok to post off-topic to any newsgroup. --- or --- Those of us who get tired of filtering it manually just unsubscribe and let this list go the way so many have before it. I'm sure the hardest working, most dedicated people will be the first to go. There are some things

Re: Off-topic issues

1998-10-29 Thread Robert P. Biuk-Aghai
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Ernst de Haan wrote: > What about agreeing on prepending "OFFTOPIC: " to the subject line if > the message neither concerns the port nor using Java on Linux? Those of > us who want to, can filter these messages out... Good idea in theory, but in my experience not likely to b