I posted before your clarification :-) I agree with most of what you are saying, although I have a tendancy myself to ask off-topic questions now and then!
Regards, Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Goodin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 10:37 PM Subject: RE: Are we getting off the topic > Just to clarify, > > I am okay with dumb newbie questions. I still ask them myself (even after a > year and a half of struts). I just think we need to trim our discussions > about what IDE is best, or the neat new taglib (that are not even related ot > struts), or whatever. Beer talk on a Friday is kinda part of the culture of > this board. I enjoy it. I have just noticed an exceptional amount of... "I > know this is off topic, but..." kinda stuff going on. Too much really. I > don't want this to be a sterile clinical Mailing List (that would be > boring). But, I also don't want it to digress into a general post it board. > So, let's keep the life and lose the peripheral non-struts stuff. In other > words, at least try to make it sound like what you are posting is related to > struts. Otherwise, find another board to post on. Something that is more > appropriate to your topic. :-) > > Brandon > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 2:29 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: Are we getting off the topic > > > I also agree STRONGLY. I'm a newbie to Struts, when I signed onto the > mailing list I read the article how to ask a good question. Two keys were > RTFM and STFW. So read, then search, then ask. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tero P Paananen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 2:16 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: Are we getting off the topic > > > > This board is too valuable to me. Any thoughts? > > Agree... Disagree....? > > Agree STRONGLY. > > There's a reason why I subscribe to Struts mailing list > and not to "General Java" or "Tomcat Debug" mailing list. > > Furthermore, if people would spend even 5 minutes trying > to search answers to their questions using Google or the > mailing list archives, many of the questions wouldn't > need to be asked in the first place, because they've > already been asked and answered several times. > > Have some consideration for those of us who receive > several hundred emails a day and really do not have > time to shift through all the crap. > > -TPP > > -- > 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]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
