On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Christopher K. St. John wrote:
> Rui Pereira wrote:
> > andrew tollin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> >
> > > Give it a rest people this is a servlet discussion forum
> > > not an egotistical banter fest!
> >
> > I agree with Andrew.
Wow, that's a useful response. And not at all egotistical.
It's a shame these list meta-discussions come up, but unfortunately
they do. And there's no place to have them except the list itself.
If the list appears to be heading off-course, I think a little
mid-trip course correction is useful and not unreasonable (ounce of
prevention/pound of cure and all).
Further, the list guidelines/policy are very clear on certain points,
and checking the archives first is one of them. (The policy is not
there to be a burden, but to make the list as worthwhile as possible,
to keep the signal/noise ratio high.) The policy is available as a
link off the list archive page, appended at the bottom of each list
message, repeated here:
http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html
Here's a direct link to the policy:
http://www.betaversion.org/~pier/policy.html
If you're not familiar with it, I suggest you check it out.
FWIW, I find checking the archives not just courteous, but practical.
Often I can find the answer to my question right away, without having
to wait for people to respond.
> Ok, everybody who has answered as many questions on this
> list as Milt and Nic, raise their hands. Hmm, I don't see
> many hands.
[ ... ]
Of course, Christopher is very good about answering questions himself.
And he seems to have more patience than Nic or I :-).
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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