On April 8, 2002 at 15:33, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > >I am having some errors being generated when i use log4j > [snip] > > I have no idea why random people are sending inappropriate technical > questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or how to best prevent it. I've made > several attempts to find out what these posters were thinking, but > people just seem to apologize and run off. Not sure what to do, maybe > put a big blinking warning on the subscription page to gossip? :)
Sometimes, there is not much you can do about cluelessness. My guess on why this happens: * A person checks a archive archived at mail-archive.com to see if there are any answers to their problem. Who knows how they got to the site, but it probably via some major search engine like Google. * The person finds nothing, but is not sure where to send the message to get an answer. So he checks on the site for some admin address and comes across [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have gotten mail from clueless people about stuff chalking it up to the fact that MHonArc adds a "Converted by ..." line when processing mail archives. Apparently, some people follow the link and then think I am personally responsible for the mailing list and would know the answer to their question or get flamed because someone archived their message on the web without their permission. The best ones are the ones that threaten legal action. --ewh _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
