"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: > > 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.
2494 / 2 = 1247, which is much closer to 470 then 2494. And throw in the form thingy, the number of 'good' messages a developer has to go through is probably going to go down by the factor of 4. > > 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. I can't argue with that one since I'm very green here. But my thinking is coming from the basic mailing list notion: ask your question in the right forum. Bojan
