The most significant way to reduce traffic is to answer peoples questions. Eddie Bush is a heavy user of this list, but probably cuts the total amount of traffic. Sorry, Eddie, did not mean to give you a compliment, but had to anyway. ///;-) The list is for using. The traffic attests to the significance of struts, which while not perfect, sure provides a lot of functionality to people. User traffic is good, I think.
At 10:41 AM 9/30/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Since March of 2001, there has been almost 27K emails sent >to the list. >Why the continuous pouring of emails? Maybe another >technique has to be developed for people to research >problems. > >By the way - the separate folder technique works until you >take a trip for week and things get back logged. > >- Malcolm > >-----Original Message----- >From: Assenza, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 8:43 AM >To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' >Subject: RE: all this traffic > > > > Setting up your mail reader to automatically forward >STRUTS-USER messages > > to a separate folder, and then sorting by thread, is a >trivially easy > > approach to dealing with volume issues. Your inbox is no >longer clogged, > > you can go read Struts mail when you have time, and can >ignore entire > > irrelevant threads with a single command to advance to the >next thread. > >Indeed, that is in fact my method of choice for using this >list. All one >has to do is look at subject headers to asses interest and >move on. I >usually read everything I want to read and then delete the >contents of the >folder. > >There are some drawbacks to this approach [or any >client-based solution] >though, most notably if you have low size limits on your >mail account or if >you access your mail remotely on a regular basis (ie. a >traveller). Sitting >in a hotel room waiting to communicate with Exchange (or >worse POP3) becomes >rather burdensome when there are 1k+ unread messages in the >Struts folder. >Overall, still the best approach, but I can definitely see >why some people >might want to reduce volume. However, I'm not big on the >struts-newbie list >idea myself. > >-Chris > >-- >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]>
