As the new "moderator" of this list, with the new year, it seems appropriate
to remember to everyone what the list policy is. I'll try to forward this
once a week, or every two, as it is very important to keep this community
healthy and with a high ratio of signal-noise.
Thank you all for listening :)
Pier
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Pier Fumagalli - Sun Microsystems Inc. - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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This is an informative post about conventions and usage of the
SERVLET-INTEREST list.
BEFORE POSTING
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this is the best place to ask it.
1) Sometimes this may be the wrong forum for your discussion because it is
not to do with servlet technology and can be better discussed elsewhere.
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3) Check some of the extensive FAQs and documentation that has been
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servlets:
<http://java.sun.com/products/servlet>
b) An excellent place to start learning about servlets is the Servlet
Trail of the Servlet Tutorial:
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d) Some FAQs that may help you
<http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets>
<http://www.purpletech.com/servlet-faq/>
<http://www.interpasnet.com/JSS/textes/servfaq.html>
We encourage you to help out with the maintenance and growth of these faqs
because people find them so useful.
LIST USAGE
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A few notes about the use of this list. We at Sun enjoy hosting this list to
give everyone a forum to discuss servlets and related technology. There are
a few things that we ask of you, the list members:
1) If you have a question that you urgently need the answer to please
remember that it is unlikely that everyone else on the list will feel as
urgently about it as you do. People participate on these lists because
they want to and may occasionally be irritated to get a mail in their
inbox that is labelled URGENT, or URGENT HELP REQUIRED ! It may actually
discourage someone from answering or following up with a discussion. If
you have not posted to this list before, and perhaps are a beginner in
the technology and are not sure if your question is well formed it can be
helpful to put [BEGINNER], [NEWBIE] or in the subject line.
2) Please don't engage in advertising ! We like to hear when new products
are announced and a link for all the information. What we don't like are
lengthy press releases, advertisements, and other material which falls
under the umbrella term "marketing". There is no problem in stating how
your product compares to another, but remember, this isn't run by Sun to
be an advertising forum -- but as a technical forum. Putting [ANN] in the
subject line is a good and known convention for sending out an
announcement message.
3) Please don't post attachments to the list. The use of VCards and
S/MIME is not really needed on a list like this and is annoying to some
whose readers don't support them. More serious is the posting of .zip
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