As has been mentioned before, you can make use of the (searchable) archives if you wish to browse the contents of the mailing list without subscribing. I do this all the time from home, where I am not subscribed to the list.
You can make use of filters to help keep your Inbox from being cluttered. The Jakarta mailing lists all provide the "List-Id" header, and I find this is a reliable way to make sure that Tomcat mail goes into the Tomcat folder of my mail client. Further filters can help you focus on the content that you wish to read, for instance I filter out any email with "mod_jk" or "IIS" in the subject because I am not currently interested in those topics. No one should subscribe to mailing lists without using mail client software with filtering features (and if this is you, Mozilla is a robust and powerful mail client that supports all the latest doodads like IMAP and IIRC Bayesian spam filtering, etc).
The list is available in digest form if you really can't handle multiple emails, and I have found the digest to be extremely well-designed (making use of multipart MIME messages for intelligent mail clients that know how to display this). Send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to get more information about this and other advanced mailing list features.
That said, if you really want to push for a change, this isn't the appropriate forum for it -- the Jakarta Project has a "General" mailing list at the bottom of this page <http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html> where such discussions are held.
Erik
NormW wrote:
Good afternoon All. Only new to the Tomcat User Mail List and may likely opt out soon to conserve my Inbox, but wanted to say that getting 91 emails in one session (2 were relevant to the question I asked) isn't helping me or likely of much use to anyone else for that matter either. (Perhaps my ISP who charges by the amount downloaded?)
I have limited exposure to Tomcat and the docs and config files to some extent, so I probably could help a few, but not if I have to keep clearing my my Inbox every hour or so.
Newsgroups are what I got used to for Netware, with the various products broken up into different categories like install, utils and so on, that ANYONE can browse, and if you see a message that you can offer some help to, just click on 'reply to group', say your piece and send; no cluttered Inboxes and, I suspect, a lot less traffic for the server. A moderator (unknown) vets/removes anything of a stupid/antisocial nature, and in five plus years that I've experienced it, it seems to have worked well.
I've received emails recently that are proposing eForum(s), and, while the format is unknown to me, believe there is a sound basis for looking at changing the way the users list works, regardless of the method used. $0.02 Norm
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