>>>>> "John" == John Marquart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> TOMCATers,
John> Is there any way to make a digest form of this list available? Is
John> there an archive? I cannot find one mentioned at the jakarta homepage.
John> This list generates a huge amount of traffic - much of it redundant or
John> already contained in the faq. This is the kind of traffic that will most
John> likely beat your best and brightest into the darkness and turns off
John> novices such as myself. I have not been on a technical mailing list in
John> quite some-time which responds as consistently to questions already in the
John> FAQ. The very few non-FAQ threads that I have found on the list have been
John> great and have taught me alot, but the noise-to-signal ratio in general is
John> troubling.
I feel sorry for all the people who could benefit from numerous
different mailing lists, but who don't use the GNUS newsreader inside
of Emacs to read their mail and mailing lists, so they avoid mailing
lists.
I subscribe to ~20 mailing lists, several of them somewhat
high-volume, and using GNUS to read/write them (or even ignore them
sometimes) is a breeze. It's just a teensy bit harder to set up than
your average mail reader. It can also be useful to have a workable
mail filtering agent, like "Procmail", but you can get by without it.
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