I'm back (last week was incredibly busy!)
Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Let's try to build a community around this incredible
>> bunch of hundreds of people,
>
> Thousands of people. The servlet-interest list is the biggest Java
> list that Sun have AFAIK.
Even better....
>> and let's make this community become something
>> _really_ useful and likable.
>
> I have a couple of points to make. I'm one of the longest serving
> members here now (perhaps *the* longest serving?) and I've ssen a lot
> of changes since this list grew out of the java-webserver list.
>
> Originally we were a community. What changed (in about '99) was that
> experts started leaving because of the amount of mail.
>
> Some of us who remained got annoyed with posters here because the
> questions they were asking had all been answered 2, 3, 4 or more times
> before and the repeat questions were particularly what drove other
> experts away.
>
> This list has been poorer ever since.
>
> I (and others) have tried to combat this in 2 ways:
>
> 1. we setup a home for servlet experts to hide away from this list,
> to keep them within a community if not this one
>
> 2. we setup a list for people who felt they were nearlly advanced but
> wanted some help in achieving guru-hood.
>
> 3. we kept posting here on the more detailed questions and
> occasionally got cross and said "that's off topic" or "that's been
> answered before"
Well, why don't "officializing" those efforts within the scope of this
mailing list? Do you think that having a mailing list such as
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" would "revitalize" the old community? Maybe
moderated....
> I *really* appreciate Pier's involvement. I hope some of you know how
> instrumental Pier has been in the servlet world.
Yeah, whatever... I never did anything....
> I do hope you can achieve the aim of making this a community again,
> it hasn't felt like one for a very long time indeed.
Well... That's why I'm asking your help :)
Pier
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