What might make sense is to leave this list as a forum for discussion of the
API, and to have a newsgroup for development issues -- a topic which currently
takes up the bulk of this list. This list generates so much traffic that I
often think it's time to turn it into a newsgroup.
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Kito D. Mann
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Milt Epstein wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 1999, R.C.Nougain wrote:
>
> > *Perhaps* it will be far better to have a web based discussion group
> > eg comp.lang.java.servlet on some server (Sun's or Deja) rather than
> > having a mailing list. I find my inbox full everyday and do get lost
> > in reading all those messages. By having a wed based message
> > repository one can go there and can look for or post the messages he
> > is interested in. What do you think?
>
> Well, there is already a web-based archive of this list, so if you
> want to read it that way, that should take care of that. Just because
> you're getting swamped with the messages, no reason to force everyone
> to change.
>
> I personally find web-based discussion groups inconvenient, although
> news-based discussion groups (i.e. newsgroups) are just fine. There
> are already several comp.lang.java.* newsgroups. I don't think there
> is a servlet/server-side newsgroup yet, although there was some
> discussion of it some time back (I don't know whether it moved to
> formal discussion to create such a newsgroup). Of course, that could
> be in addition to this list as opposed to instead of it.
>
> Milt Epstein
> Research Programmer
> Software/Systems Development Group
> Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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