Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-lucene-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 31376 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2008 16:39:20 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 18 Jun 2008 16:39:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 94890 invoked by uid 500); 18 Jun 2008 16:39:22 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-lucene-general-archive@lucene.apache.org Received: (qmail 94453 invoked by uid 500); 18 Jun 2008 16:39:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@lucene.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@lucene.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@lucene.apache.org Received: (qmail 94435 invoked by uid 99); 18 Jun 2008 16:39:21 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:39:21 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [208.69.42.181] (HELO radix.cryptio.net) (208.69.42.181) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:38:31 +0000 Received: by radix.cryptio.net (Postfix, from userid 1007) id E2C3571D452; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by radix.cryptio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3282771D17B for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:38:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Hostetter To: general@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Should this mailing list exist? In-Reply-To: <1213798145.14253.67.camel@whisper.dnsalias.net> Message-ID: References: <1213798145.14253.67.camel@whisper.dnsalias.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org : Subject: Should this mailing list exist? Yes, general@lucene is the main point of contact for people interested in the *entire* Lucene project -- either because they want to discuss the organization of the project, propose new subprojects, or have questions about search related technologies but have no idea where to start (Solr? Nutch? Lucene-Java? etc...) : I see subscribing users constantly redirected to java-user, because : there is much greater traffic over there. while it's true the traffic on java-user is greater, that is really a secondary issue. People get refered to java-user when they are asking questions about using the Java API. When people ask questions like "How can i make nutch only crawl one site?" they get refered to the nutch-user list; etc... Since a large number of people associate "Lucene" with only the java API, there tend to be more people posting Java API questions on general@ then there are people posting Nutch questions, but the principle is the same. -Hoss