Jeff, Way too long a response.
Regards, Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Duska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:37 AM Subject: Re: velocity help urgent... > I doubt you will get much help with this email, because you have broken > two rules of netiquette. First, you have posted on the wrong maillist. > This is the list for the development of Velocity. You want to use > Velocity, so you need post to the user list. Please re-read the maillist > guidelines at http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html. > > Your second mistake is that you didn't ask a smart question. Please read > Eric Raymond "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" at > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html. You see that > instead of saying "How do I use Velocity in Tomcat". You should ask a > questions like the following: > > I've read the developer's manual and the VTL guide, but I'm stuck on > getting my velocity.properties file read. I have it placed in > /WEB-INF/conf directory of my web application... Can you guy get me > a pointer. > > Notice that my sample question is a specific problem. I've shown that > I'm doing working on solving my problem myself by reading the known > documenation. Yet, I just need a pointer. Your email doesn't even > mention that you've read the documenation. Nor do we know what the > issues is? How can we help you without a detailed problem to solve? > Remember this a voluntary project, so there is a chance that no one will > respond. The good news is that Velocity is one of most active and > support projects I've seen. It seems like someone is always willing help > out. > > I suggest reading over Geir Magnusson Jr's Java World article @ > http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2001/jw-1228-velocity.html on > Velocity first. I found this very helpful in getting this up to speed. > Next, I suggest that you look at the Velocity documents. If you still > have a problems post them to user list. > > I hope this wasn't too harsh and helps. > > Regards, > > Jeff Duska > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
