RE: Should we do moderation on this mailinglist??

[Swart, James (Jim) ** CTR **]

Looks like I could use some practice in writing to the masses.  This is what
I *meant* to say in earlier e-mails today.  I just suck at putting it
politically.  Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin van den Bemt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 2:18 PM
To: jakarta-tomcat-user
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Should we do moderation on this mailinglist??


Hi to everybody who is actually trying to get some information on this
mailing list, or to help others,


The 2 weeks I've been a member here, just trying to get new ideas and help
others out with tomcat issues, I would say, were pretty horrible. about 50%
of the mail is actually rubbish (which means double mails, requests for
unsuscribing and other SPAM. This can have a couple of couses :
<irritated mode on>
- Most people cannot read
- Most people cannot think logically
- Most people should not be able to subscribe to this list
- Most people shouldn't wast other people's time, so they still want to help
people.
<irritated mode off>
<solution mode on>
- "members" with no active e-mail address should be deleted right away (who
has the rights to do that?), so people don't resend messages again. (I
mailed the owner of the mailinglist, but haven't had a reply yet..)
- Don't allow misuse of the mailinglist anymore : block those senders
immidiately from the mailinglist (that's what they want it seems) ==> are
there any facilities for that.
- Don't reply to misuse of the mailinglist
- Off topic messages can be nicely redirected to the appropiate area.
- Let everyone state clearly what they are using (rh 7.1, windows 2000,
which version of tomcat, etc). A lot of replies are pretty useless if they
have another version of the product. Also the probability that the correct
people (the people actually using tomcat on a rh7.1 box, will reply..)
- Send a "rules" e-mail to subscribers.
- Send stuff that's not interesting (like someone suggested in the list
today), directly to the sender of the mail. (If I have made a commercial
solution for a problem or question, I mail to peoples private e-mail
address, as an example..)

The common goal should be :

Users helping users!!

Just trying to get some improvement here.. I think a lot of people are
currently giving up on this list and that's not good for tomcat (at least
that's what I think)

Mvgr,
Martin van den Bemt