I do have to mention that often times if you understood the answer you would not need to ask the question. :-)
I think that telling people to search the archives is a good idea if we know for sure that they contain an example of how to solve the question asked. However, a lot of time the answers are generalities, which causes the asker to have to ask again and again and again. If we could make sure are answers are in the form of examples, we would undoubtedly cut down on traffic in the news group. Just over the past week I have seen Cool Dude ask the same question, it seems, like 4 times. My two cents worth, not a flame. -- Larry Maturo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:46 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Traffic I really do agree that users of the mailing list should be *strongly* encouraged to search the archives (maybe just with STA, though, so they don't get too offended!). Sooooo many questions come up that have been tackled over and over again. I was off for a week last week and had almost 900 messages in my inbox to delete, which is crazy. Dave "Galbreath, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/12/2002 07:27:17 AM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: (bcc: David Hay/Lex/Lexmark) Subject: RE: Traffic It's going to get worse. Nevertheless, you will never be able to manage the number/technical level of users in an open forum. SERVLET-INTEREST became too congested with basic setup and config questions by people too lazy to search the archive for an answer (and how many scores of questions have been asked here regarding ActionForm in just the past 2 weeks?) so a few guys created ADVANCED-SERVLET-INTEREST and began regulating the level of users. One thing that helped, however, was being brutally blunt with obviously lame users and telling them to STFA (search the f*cking archives), STFW (...web) and RTFM. This started a couple of flame wars, and the Sun moderator finally had to banish a few people, but the quality and quantity of posts changed considerably for the better. I'm not suggesting that's an answer, but my delete key has been getting a lot of attention lately.... Mark -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 9:36 PM Well, it's not dibilitating. I can hack it. I guess I'm neutral on this one. - Cody "Barr, Scott [IBM GSA]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/11/2002 08:01:41 PM I disagree. Most messages are relatively small, and so long as people dont send attachments there generally isn't too much of a problem. The delete key is a great filter :) Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:28 PM > > I second that motion. We do not have filtering capability here at my work > so I have to manually delete messages! > > - Cody > > Mark Rines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/11/2002 07:19:43 PM > > Phew, > I vote that we split up this mail list into several topics such as > installation, configuration, add-ons (such as strutsTests) and extending > the > various ActionXXX classes. I am really having trouble keeping up with all > (over 110 just today) the email. > Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
