I know that Jon has already pointed out that Sun is going to sue the 3.x
branch out of Jakarta in five months, but is there any chance of setting
this up in the mean time for 3.x?
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From: Pier Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tomcat Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jakarta
General List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 8:01 PM
Subject: FW: Welcome to the Tomcat 4.0 F.A.Q. on-line forum.
FYI
Pier
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From: Pier Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Welcome to the Tomcat 4.0 F.A.Q. on-line forum.
In the effort of better managing our resources Apache wide, and
specifically
in our case in the scope of the Jakarta project, here is a little new
addition to our set of tools. A web-based forum system.
Some of you have asked why do we need a forum, aren't our mailing lists
enough to support our needs? My reply is simple, we need both.
The on-line forum, first of all, allows you do a couple of nifty things
that
people asked: search messages in an intelligent way (our mail archives
already do so, but most of the time, the precision of their search engine
is
not, well, the best you can get).
Plus, each question there is organized and threaded better than any Email
client can do (there is a big discussion about how to interpret the
In-Reply-To header, and some popular email clients forget to include it
in
messages), and the topics are way more visible than on a mailing list with
an average of more than 200 messages a day.
There are some more features, like: wouldn't it be nice to be able to be
notified and receive replies only to MY particular question, avoiding all
the other hundreds of emails that flow daily to your mail client? Well, a
web forum allows you to do that, you can create a thread, the one with
your
little particular problem, and watch it, being notified via email about
what replies I got only to my problem. Or looking and being notified about
that little problem I had and was reported by another guy... All that can
be
done only thru a well-managed forum, and the current internet-mail system
is
not sufficient to achieve that.
And PLUS, every message you send thru the web-forum is actually mirrored
on our mailing list (I'm still figuring out how to do the opposite, but
given enough brainpower -which I don't have at the moment - I'm sure I can
do that!), so everyone will see it (nope, you won't loose visibility, and
you don't have to post your messages twice).
I just a couple of little favors to ask you all. If you see a message
coming
from the web-forum (and you will recognize it by the lines at the bottom
of
the message, take this one for example), and you want to reply, don't
simply
hit reply on your client, but instead click on the link at the bottom,
and
respond on-line. Your message will be archieved, stored, and you won't
have
to reply to the same question anymore. And if you want to reply to someone
on the list, before doing so, check whether the same question has already
been answered on the forum. The more we use it now, the less we'll have to
use it in the future.
Last little question, please, if you see something wrong or offensive on
the
forum, please notify mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], and we'll be
able to remove it...
Thanks for listening...
Pier
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