+1 for the simple prefixes
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Mahler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OJB Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 8:57 PM Subject: [GENERAL] Re: Posts in this list... > Hi Richard, > > Richard Mottershead wrote: > > Due to the popularity of OJB (horay!!)The number of daily posts in this list > > is reaching a level where your normal user (i.e. me) can't take it all in. > > It's also hard for the developers, as we are expected to answer all > those question :-) > > > Could the list be spliton a topic basis? For example: > > > > [1] Installation (and getting the beast working) > > [2] Examples (and problems with). > > [3] Database/Schema Mapping/Configuration file issues. > > [4] Sequence Manager > > [5] Persistance Broker > > [6] Envionment & Deployment (with without Proxy, Tomcat etc) > > [7] General > > > > I know this would probably be abused and everybody could dump in the General > > list but these could be redirected by users in the know to the correct > > catagory... > > I like your idea to improve the digestability of the mailing-list traffic. > > But splitting up the user list would be quite atypical for a Jakarta > project. As you can see here http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html > the OJB users list is ranked as medium traffic (don't ask me how high > traffic looks like). All other projects only have a user- and a > developer-list. > I don't know if users will like us if we ask them to register 7 > different mailing-lists? > > here is my compromise: > let's use simple prefixes as on most usenet groups in our mail subjects > to differentiate topics. E.G.: > > [FAQ] > [NEWBIE] > [INSTALL] > [EXAMPLES] > [MAPPING] > [SEQUENCES] > [PB] > [OTM] > [ODMG] > [JDO] > [DEPLOY] > [GENERAL] > > this will allow to use message filters to sort the incoming mails into > different folders. > This is also more flexible as we won't have to set up a new mailing-list > for each new topic. > > what do you think, > cheers, > Thomas > > > > > Yours, > > Richard > > > > > >>Richard Mottershead > >>Senior Technical Consultant > >>London Bridge Software (CRM Division) > >>Wellesbourne House > >>Walton Road > >>Wellesbourne > >>Warwickshire > >>CV35 9JB > >> > >>+44(0) 7884 440949 (Mobile) > >>+44(0) 1789 470489 (Telephone) > >>+44(0) 1789 470493 (Fax) > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Email) > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > 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]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
