Gokul Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nic Ferrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> Originally we were a community. What changed (in about '99) was that
>> experts started leaving because of the amount of mail.
>
> I have been a member of this list (not a servlets expert though) for around
> a year now and feel that the traffic is really high here.
> I have also noticed that more than half the posts on this list pertain to
> JDBC/Database questions. There is no list dedicated to JDBC hosted by Sun
> (AFAIK). If Sun can come up with a seperate list for JDBC, then these post
> can go there and this list can benefit a lot.
Point taken... There is no [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I believe that
most of the off-topic questions on this list are related to that topic...
I'll ask whether it's possible to have this new mailing list opened or not.
>> This list has been poorer ever since.
>
> I have not seen many long informative threads on servlet technology on this
> list in the last year or so. But whenever I have searched the archives of
> this list, I have been able to find long threads (generally '98 and '99)
> discussing *real* problems which almost always solve my problem.
Setting up a FAQ-O-MATIC and having someone to volunteer to duplicate those
threads would be helpful, so....
>> 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.
>
> And get the experts on the list no 1.(in Nic's post) back to this list so
> that we all may benefit from their expertise.
I bet they would come back if 90% of the traffic was solved in other ways...
Pier
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