On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Andre Schild wrote:
> Perhaps we should splitt the tomcat mailinglist a bit more, so each > list gets less traffic. That idea has been tried by many different groups for many different projects over many years, and tends to fail at accomplishing the theoretical goals of reducing message traffic. The problem is that it doesn't meet the needs of either question askers or question answerers. * Question askers who subscribe to just one "specialized" user list will tend to ignore the list's topic, and just ask all their questions there anyway. * Questions that are asked (and answered) are often of interest to people subscribed to other specialized user lists, but they miss the fact that this question has already been asked and answered elsewhere -- so they ask it again. * Answerers (like me) are pretty much averse to subscribing to multiple specialized sublists, primarily because of the increased message traffic caused by the above. The net effect of such a change tends to be that the message traffic of questions increases (due to duplications), but the message traffic of answers decreases (because answerers won't subscribe to multiple lists). That kind of result would *not* be beneficial to the community. If you subscribe to high volume mailing lists like TOMCAT-USER, here's the policies I follow to maintain sanity: * Filter the mail into a separate folder, so I only have to deal with it when I want to and have time. * Set your mail reader to display the messages in threaded order, so you can see if a question you find "interesting" has already been answered. * Aggressively delete messages with subject lines you are not interested in, without even opening them. For example, I delete any message related to web connectors -- I don't use them, don't know enough about how they work to be helpful, and don't therefore find much point in reading them. This one rule makes TOMCA-USER much more palatable for me :-), but won't help people who do need to know how to configure MOD_JK or MOD_WEBAPP. > > André Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
