Re: Making tomcat-user work - a suggestion

[Anil Vijendran <ak...@pipedream.org>]

Well, I doubt if anyone would be interested in changing the name of tomcat-dev.
Too many people probably need to change their settings.

I think this is fine, as long as we keep reminding people to use tomcat-user
for user-level questions raised on tomcat-dev.

Greg Kimberly wrote:

> Thanks for the note. If you really want this shift to occur, I'd suggest an
> additional change - give tomcat-dev a new name. (You could leave the old
> tomcat-dev address in place, but I'd suggest replacing it with a
> auto-responder that lists out the new mailing lists if you mailer supports
> that.)
>
> Just my $.02 :-)
>
> best,
>
> greg
>
> At 04:09 PM 3/15/2000 , you wrote:
> > > We now have a new mailing list, mainly for users of Tomcat. If you are
> > > Tomcat user, please start using tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org. You can
> > > subscribe to tomcat-user by sending mail to
> > > tomcat-user-subscribe@jakarta.apache.org.
> > >
> > > Tomcat-dev will no longer be the mechanism you receive support from the
> > > developers of Tomcat. The hope is that tomcat-dev will become mainly a
> > > forum for the developers and committers of Tomcat.
> > >
> > > Please make an effort to use the new mailing list because (a) it reduces
> > > the amount of mail that users of Tomcat need to see, (b) this helps us
> > > filter messages and address the concerns of users better. For example,
> > > we could use the tomcat-user archive to build better documentation or
> > > FAQs.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
>
> ---------------
> greg@gak.com / www.gak.com / 617 - 625 1251

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