Unfortunately, we are dealing with 'people' here.
It is a shame that there is not a 'filter' to eliminate
'stupid' people, but as hard as I've tried, I just can't
program it. If someone else can, please make it an
Opensource project....
But, then again, we would probably get 'stupid' people
contributing, so those filters would be invalidated.
Man, it looks like we're screwed.
As an example, *I* use a bicycle as my primary
means of transportation, and have had similar
ideas about 'people' who drive cars.
I decided *I* was screwed quite some time ago.
Delete is a wonderful thing!!!
(If only it was as effective on motorists)
(Hmmm, probably 98% of the people reading this
are motorists...)
(Sorry, but if the shoe (wheel) fits...)
-Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin van den Bemt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "jakarta-tomcat-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:18 PM
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
>
>
>
