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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:10:48 +0100
Subject: Re: [general] low signal, high noise
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From: James Strachan <james_strachan@yahoo.co.uk>
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You can read apache mail via NNTP if thats what people want to do. 
(Dunno if this particular list is on there yet but most other ones are).

http://gmane.org/

For those of us who prefer to use their email reader - always using a 
good [prefix] on subjects can help. Over time when all the modules are 
in CVS we'll be able to use the [moduleName] as a good prefix - then 
folks only interested in mail relating to one or two modules can filter 
their email easily.


On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 08:05  am, Jason Dillon wrote:

> Its too bad, discussions of this size really warrant a more organized 
> message system, like NNTP... but I have no idea if anyone at Apache is 
> looking into this, or already has it implemented.  NTTP is much easier 
> to manage wrt, sub contexts as well as reduces general net traffic, as 
> every single message is not duplicated to each subscribers mail box.
>
> --jason
>
>
> On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 07:17  AM, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
>>
>> Different issue Alan.
>>
>> What I'm after are sub-lists. ie)
>>
>> geronimo-dev mail list then:
>> [general]   or  [spec]  etc.
>>
>> At Jakarta Commons we have slowly managed to get the Developer list to
>> abide by this, though no the User list 100% of the time. Although I 
>> [and
>> someone else] suggested such a thing for Geronimo, the sheer number of
>> people here means it's unlikely it'll manage to learn to abide by 
>> informal
>> rules [my opinion from the Commons community].
>>
>> Even if it is, the only way to make it adhere is to define a solid 
>> set of
>> sub-contexts and publish these [wiki, whereever]. Or to push off 
>> separate
>> lists [which damages the development of the community, but so does too
>> much noise].
>>
>> For your problem, have you tried filtering on a header? That's the
>> preferred way. However I often find myself forgetting and filtering 
>> on the
>> Reply-To.
>>
>> Hen
>>
>> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Alan Cabrera wrote:
>>
>>> I requested a similar thing in that I asked for this discussion to be
>>> labeled [geronimo-dev] so that I can spot it from the tons of junk 
>>> emails
>>> that are sent to me and the response that I basically got was that 
>>> it's too
>>> bad the my emailer sucks so bad.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Alan
>>> OpenEJB Developer
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Henri Yandell [mailto:bayard@generationjava.com]
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if others are finding this too, but I'm
>>>> definitely looking forward to a time when the mail list gets
>>>> nice and organised about either having multiple lists or
>>>> having an obvious separation of concepts with good use of
>>>> [xxx] markers.
>>>>
>>>> I'm used to getting a lot of mail list traffic into my inbox,
>>>> and yet I'm starting to treat the list as a lot of white-noise.
>>>>
>>>> Any need for improvements, or am I just being a wimp?
>>>>
>>>> Hen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

James
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