On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Dror Matalon wrote: > Would it make sense to have a FAQ that's specific to the list (I > know that there are other servlet FAQ on the net). We could then > automatically email it to the list periodically and hopefully > increase the signal to noise ratio. > > I'd be happy to host the FAQ, since we have the infrastructure for > this kind of task.
The thing is, there are plenty of FAQs already out there. What we need is for people to be more responsible, to make use of all these resources before posting to the list, to not post off-topic questions, etc.. What I think would work better is for there to be a message that gets sent out to new subscribers explaining all this. And perhaps that message should get posted periodically as well. But this is something that the list moderator would have to do (well, I guess anyone can do the periodic posting, but not having something automatically sent to new subscribers -- well, it could be fudged, I guess :-). Such a document could list some of the FAQs. If the list moderator doesn't respond, and if there's some consensus, I could have a go at writing a draft of this (I'd use the old periodic policy postings as a starting point). > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:19:43PM -0400, Zerbe John W wrote: > > I happen to agree with Mark on this one. Mike, if you wish to get > > answers to these people who insist on asking off topic questions > > here, please do them (and us) a favor by directing them to a > > general java mailing list and answering their questions there. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark E. Zawadzki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 2:14 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Off Topic: Just a suggestion... > > > > To which I reply > > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#not_losing , > > 5th paragraph forward. Without some selective bashing this forum > > will lose focus and soon become a general Java list (of which > > there are plenty enough alreeady) > > > > --- Mike Cronin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I kept my trap shut yesterday after getting my butt chewed by > > > responding to an off topic question regarding date handling. I > > > understand that this board exists specifically for servlets and > > > that we should keep the off topic issues to a minimum, but after > > > reviewing 20 posts of off topic, unhelpful and offhanded > > > comments this morning, I feel we should stick to answering any > > > question presented with as little overhead (i.e. slams and/or > > > digs) as possible. Even when the post is off topic, let's see if > > > we can get an answer to that programmer and move on. > > > > > > Thanks much, > > > > > > Mike Cronin Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
