Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 7543 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2000 15:06:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hq.iitedge.com) (root@209.8.51.136) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 8 Dec 2000 15:06:56 -0000 Received: from dawnstar.org ([64.14.113.217]) by hq.iitedge.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09408 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:03:06 -0500 Sender: tlow@hq.iitedge.com Message-ID: <3A30FB94.E97DF619@dawnstar.org> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:17:40 -0500 From: Travis Low X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.15-4mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: This List is over-whelming References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N How about a separate list for tomcat-jsp? T John Marquart wrote: > > TOMCATers, > Is there any way to make a digest form of this list available? Is > there an archive? I cannot find one mentioned at the jakarta homepage. > > This list generates a huge amount of traffic - much of it redundant or > already contained in the faq. This is the kind of traffic that will most > likely beat your best and brightest into the darkness and turns off > novices such as myself. I have not been on a technical mailing list in > quite some-time which responds as consistently to questions already in the > FAQ. The very few non-FAQ threads that I have found on the list have been > great and have taught me alot, but the noise-to-signal ratio in general is > troubling. > > Once before there was a discussion about moving/adding a newsgroup / > digest format. The newsgroups idea was shot-down because it would be > possible that some individuals would not be able to access it from behind > firewalls. Can we have a digest then? Most mailing-list software can > handle digests - it cannot be that difficult to configure. > > If such a digest already exists - I apologize, and beg you to add its > subscription information to the jakarta.apache.org mailing list pages. > > thank you, > -jamie > > John "Jamie" Marquart | This message posted 100% MS free. > Digital Library SysAdmin | Work: 812-856-5174 Pager: 812-334-6018 > Indiana University Libraries | ICQ: 1131494 D'net Team: 6265 -- Travis Low