Bart Cassady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Friday
January 7, 2000 at 8:20am:
>Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:00:22 -0700
>From: Bart Cassady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Very Very Urgent !!!
>
>I'm normally pretty quiet in my responses to this forum, but I can't
stop myself this time.
...
>This question is completely off-topic. What's worse, people reply
on-list. I often reply to off-topic questions, but I reply directly
to the poster of the question.
...
>Please keep it on topic, for both the initial question and responses.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>Bart Cassady
>Database Analyst
>Corporate Technology Services
>Associated Engineering Group Ltd.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>> Moloy Biswas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/06 4:07 AM >>>
>Can anyone tell me how to call one applet from another applet ? This
is
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I would agree with Bart.
When I see a subject line like "Help, Urgent !!!" or "Hello Java
Gurus", I just assume that the submitter has got a question that's
completely off topic or hasn't done any work on the problem -- and
doesn't merit the time or effort to formulate an answer.
I might even go out on a limb here and suggest that if the subject
line on a question is blank or doesn't state the problem, that
question has little value in the archive (a researcher would likely
skip over it) and probably doesn't merit much of a response.
ServleForum.com, http://www.servletforum.com, is similarly
overwhelmed by off-topic questions and I'd be interested to know if
anyone has had any success in dealing with the problem. I'm using a
separate mailbox just for servlet-interest and I suppose I could just
spam-filter the heck out of the subject line...
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