Agreed. This has shown to work very well in jakarta-commons. When httpclient started taking up over 1/2 of the mailing list traffic, we just created a httpclient-dev list, while keeping all the lower traffic projects together on the dev list.
*laugh*
This is further reason that we need to arrange things by function rather than by language within the ASF.
Can I take it that httpclient-dev@ is the ASF Java-based HTTP client? People had told us they thought there was something, but they couldn't tell us where it was or who was a contact person. Perhaps you know (are you involved?).
FWIW, there's also been some work in a C HTTP client (see apr-serf). We really ought to try to pool some of our resources together (why I want to see a reorg occur!). Is there by any chance a website for httpclient, or is it just source and mailing lists?
If time permits, I might subscribe to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Not sure how many more high traffic lists I can take. -- justin
