on't
think it's all that hard to just ignore properly marked OT topics if you're
not interested.
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From: Parsons Technical Services
To: Tomcat Users List
Sent: 12/9/2004 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Tomcat mailing list is full of non tomcat topics
> So
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:28:37PM +0100, Roberto Cosenza wrote:
: That's a risk, but there is people who care but just needs to be
informed
You're welcome to get started. =)
There's nothing to stop you from doing this post.
Who knows, perhaps it will have an effect? In my experience (I've seen
It's like those posters that remind people not to be rude with their
cellphones in public places: the offenders hardly recognize themselves,
so the posters are a waste. =)
-QM
That's a risk, but there is people who care but just needs to be informed
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Roberto Cosenza
Infoflex Connect AB, Sw
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:31:41AM +0100, Roberto Cosenza wrote:
: What I mean is that since, as somebody reminded, some of the users make
: confusion about what is tomcat and what is not, why don't we help them ?
: An idea, seen somewhere else, could be to post on a regular basic a
: short maili
Some days ago we had a 20 post about how to convert a char to an
intvery legitimate question but very OT.
And marked as such.
Quote:
"sorry for posting this offtopic qns here"
And the subject:
"off topic - how do i convert an int to char"
Doug
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From: "Ben Souther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Tomcat mailing list is full of non tomcat topics
That said, lengthly threads that banter about
> That said, lengthly threads that banter about the merits of
> various JSRs and specs clearly don't belong here and should
> either be relocated or (more likely), marked OT.
Where Tomcat is used as the reference implementation for the
Servlet and JSP specs, and where the mission of the Tomcat
Personally, it seems like truly off-topic messages get tagged pretty
quickly on this list. I think that's a reasonable solution to handle
this problem.
As for the *root* of the problem, the VAST majority of questions come
from novice users who, predictably, don't know the difference between a
