From the Jakarta Mailing List page, Turbine User and Ant Developer
are the only two other lists that are listed as high traffic. I seem to
remember seeing a posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] listing the number
of subscribers to each list (not that subscribers has any bearing to
traffic), but Tomcat had something like 3500, Turbine 2700, and nothing else
topped 1000.
For what its worth, tomcat-user in any form other than email would
not include my participation.
Also, a number of people don't have any access to newsgroups in the
alt.* hierarchy due to ISPs not wanting to worry about which alt groups
violate their "adult" standards. Something to keep in mind if some people
out there want to create a new group and don't want to host it themselves.
Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 3:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: AW: mailing list or news group??
>
>
> 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)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
