The first thing I do when someone starts a thread about list noise is to run that persons name through my gmail search engine and see what their posts are like. I always find this to be revealing. Indeed, I run my own name through and get equally embarrassed about what an ass I can be. If we take an objective look at what expands traffic, both through sins of commission and omission, I think we will get surprising results.
I have a suggestion that we expand the areas of non-Tomcat to the following: [OT] -- Off Topic [SA] -- Smart Ass threads with self-congratulatory replies to other peoples' questions which really are not meant to help as much as to deride. [HM] -- Hallway Monitor threads about the list and other people. Until people get used to these, the user should put in the Subject the explanation, e.g. [HM] -- Hallway Monitor -- blah blah. If this were done we could read less than 50% of the posts. Seriously, however, if we all look at our posts and see how helpful they are and how likely they are to contribute or to make worse list noise, I think that we would all be better off. Jack On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:44:11 +0100, Roberto Cosenza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi cats worldover. > It's been a while that I've reading the posts on this mailing list and I can > easily say that about 30% are not pertinent to tomcat but are related to web > technology in general. Isn't it time to route this traffic to other mailing > lists? Can't the tomcat project host new list for those users lookin for > other kind of help? > It will sure enhance the quality of the list a lot. > /Roberto > > -- "You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." ~Native Proverb~ "Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows." ~Hunkesni (Sitting Bull), Hunkpapa Sioux~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
