Milt Epstein wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Jain, Hursh wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Milt Epstein [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 6:34 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: GURUS : NEEDED -- Bucket class
> > >
> > [..]
> > >I'm sorry, this list can't be all things to all people, and people
> > >posting *and* responding to off-topic questions is only making it
> > >worse.
> >
> > I totally agree with this. The S/N ratio is about 1/10 in this list.
> > How about a moderator that only lets servlet related questions
> > through ? I am sure moderation has been discussed before but what
> > was the outcome ?
>
> I don't think there'll be much support for moderation -- at least, not
> when it comes time for someone to volunteer to be the moderator :-).
> I'm not sure it's really been specifically discussed, but I think the
> Sun people have clearly indicated they don't want to go in that
> direction. They have hinted at a bit of self-moderation, which is how
> I would classify my recent efforts.
>
>
I subscribe to several high traffic mailing lists. I end up
reading a lot of off topic posts. I spend way too much of my time
wading through off topic posts. I find off topics posts to be the
sign of either an completely inconsiderate or a very ignorant person.
People who deliberately post off topic messages are selfish and
insulting boors. They assume their time must be more valuable than
the time of 1000's of other people. They deserve nothing but
derision.
People who unknowingly post off-topic messages are simply
ignorant and deserve a polite private email informing them of
their mistake.
None of the off-topic posts deserves an answer beyond a
pointer to the correct place to ask the question.
I've seen several good mailing lists destroyed when the
S/N ration crashed and all the knowledable people left
for greener pastures. Please help keep that from happening
here.
-cks
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