On Thu, 17 May 2001, Robert Wohlgemuth wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Mailinglists are very good, but if the amount of messages explode
> (like in this mailing list) it should be considered to split the
> mailinglist into several more specific ones:
> e.g. tomcat + IIS
> tomcat + apache (win)
> tomcat + apache (linux)
> tomcat + security
>
> and so on.
>
> I think this would improve the quality of service.
[ ... ]
This isn't a bad idea. The key thing (for me, at least) is really to
separate things such that one wouldn't end up subscribing to most/all
of the lists anyway (e.g. I wouldn't subscribe to a windows list :-).
Along with that, the separation would have to be clear, intuitive, and
relatively complete. I wonder how much traffic this list gets
compared to all the other apache/jakarta lists, if it's unique for its
high volume.
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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