On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Preston L. Bannister wrote:
> Replies to the RFD for comp.lang.java.servlets (so far). As will
> become clear, I'm a minimalist not a lawyer :). My responses are
> preceeded by "RESPONSE:".
>
>
> Traffic on mailing list
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>
> From: Ru Igarashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 16 Jul 1999 00:00:00 GMT
>
> You imply there is some discussion in the exisiting news groups, and
> you provide statistic for the mailing list, yet you do not have
> statistics from the existing news groups (which is more
> statistically relevant). What are the posting traffic and
> apparently interested readership size in the existing news groups?
> Also, what is the size of the readership of the mailing list. It
> has sufficient traffic, but you need >150 yes votes for a decent
> chance of getting the new group.
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Driscoll)
> Date: 22 Jul 1999 00:00:00 GMT
>
> Last time I checked, there were 1800 people on the list.
>
> From: Kathy Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 16 Jul 1999 00:00:00 GMT
>
> How many postings per day on the servlets vs. the rest of the posts?
>
> RESPONSE:
>
> From the servlet-interest archive I see 1282 messages this last
> July. This works out to ~40 messages per day.
I think the question was referring to the existing comp.lang.java.*
newsgroups, i.e. what is the volume/proportion of servlet-related
postings there.
[ ... ]
> SUMMARY
> =======
>
> I don't believe any of the above is cause re-issue the RFD.
> Reasoned and differing opinions are of course welcome :).
I think it might be worth it to reissue the RFD. I can understand the
motivation to not make these minor changes and not have the RFD grow
wordy and complex. On the other hand, my experience is that it is
worth it to have certain things better clarified from the start --
ounce of prevention, pound of cure and all. Things like what's
on-topic, whether job postings are allowed, etc,. might be good
candidates for clarification.
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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