It seems to me that all this dicussion is off-topic too!. Could you, please, take it off-line? "Christopher K. St. John" wrote: > 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 > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
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