On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Bojan Smojver wrote:
> Most of this has come from my totally different experience with Velocity
> User mailing list. There are fewer messages and fewer developers
> answering questions, but most of the time users get a good response in
> minutes.
Part of the cause for the difference is sheer volume ... as of a few
minutes ago, TOMCAT-USER has 2494 subscribers (largest list other than
GENERAL on Jakarta), while VELOCITY-USER has 470.
> Now, TC is not a product like Velocity that mostly experienced,
> renegade JSP-ers use, but I think reducing the traffic and separating
> good questions for the bad ones would encourage more developers to pay
> attention to the user list. As it stands, I think many of them avoid it
> because they perceive it as a bloated mess. That's my opinion, at least.
>
Many years of experience on JServ and Tomcat mailing lists leads me to
believe that this will *increase* overall traffic, not decrease it. And
that would not be good.
> Bojan
>
Craig
