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| <title>Mailing List Guidelines</title> |
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| <body> |
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| <section name="Mailing Lists - Guidelines"> |
| |
| <p>A mailing list is an electronic discussion forum that anyone can |
| subscribe to. When someone sends an email message to the mailing list, |
| a copy of that message is broadcast to everyone who is subscribed to |
| that mailing list. Mailing lists provide a simple and effective |
| communication mechanism. With potentially thousands of subscribers, |
| there is a common set of etiquette guidelines that you should observe. |
| Please keep on reading. |
| </p> |
| |
| |
| <p> |
| <strong> |
| Respect the mailing list type |
| </strong> |
| </p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| The "User" list is where you can send questions and comments about |
| configuration, setup, usage and other "user" types of questions. |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| The "Developer" (or "Dev") list is where you can send questions and |
| comments about the actual software source code and general |
| "development" types of questions. |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>Some questions are appropriate for posting on both the "user" and |
| the "developer" lists. In this case, pick one and only one. Do not |
| cross post.</p> |
| |
| <p>Asking a configuration question on the developers list is frowned |
| upon because developers' time is as precious as yours. By contacting |
| them directly instead of the user base you are abusing resources. In |
| fact, it is unlikely that you will get a quicker answer, if at |
| all.</p> |
| |
| <p> |
| <strong> |
| Join the lists that are appropriate for your discussion. |
| </strong><br /> |
| Please make sure that you are joining the list that is appropriate for the |
| topic or product that you would like to discuss. For example, |
| please do not join the Struts mailing list and ask questions about Tomcat. |
| Instead, you should join the Tomcat User list and ask your questions |
| there. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| <strong> |
| Ask smart questions. |
| </strong><br /> |
| Every volunteer project obtains its strength from the people involved |
| in it. You are welcome to join any of our mailing lists. You can |
| choose to lurk, or actively participate; it's up to you. The level of |
| community responsiveness to specific questions is generally directly |
| proportional to the amount of effort you spend formulating your |
| question. Eric Raymond and Rick Moen have even written an essay entitled <a |
| href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html">"<b>Asking |
| Smart Questions</b>"</a> precisely on this topic. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| <strong> |
| Keep your email short and to the point. |
| </strong><br /> |
| If your email is more than about a page of text, chances are that it |
| won't get read by very many people. It is much better to try to pack a |
| lot of informative information (see above about asking smart questions) |
| into as small of an email as possible. If you are replying to a previous |
| email, it is a good idea to only quote the parts that you are replying |
| to and to remove the unnecessary bits. This makes it easier for people |
| to follow a thread as well as making the email archives easier to search |
| and read. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| <strong> |
| Do your best to ensure that you are not sending HTML or |
| "Stylelized" email to the list. |
| </strong><br /> |
| If you are using Outlook or Outlook Express or Eudora, chances are that |
| you are sending HTML email by default. There is usually a setting that |
| will allow you to send "Plain Text" email. If you are using Microsoft |
| products to send email, there are several bugs in the software that |
| prevent you from turning off the sending of HTML email. Please read this |
| <a href="./micromail.html">page</a> as well... |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| <strong> |
| Do not cross post messages. |
| </strong><br /> |
| In other words, pick a mailing list and send your messages to that mailing |
| list only. Do not send your messages to multiple mailing lists. The reason is |
| that people may be subscribed to one list and not to the other. Therefore, |
| some people will only see part of the conversation. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| <strong>Watch where you are sending email.</strong>. |
| The majority of our mailing lists have set the Reply-To to go back to the |
| list. That means that when you Reply to a message, it will go to the list |
| and not to the original author directly. The reason is because it helps |
| facilitate discussion on the list for everyone to benefit from. Be careful |
| of this as sometimes you may intend to reply to a message directly to someone |
| instead of the entire list. |
| The appropriate contents of the Reply-To header is an age-old debate that |
| should not be brought up on the mailing lists. You can |
| examine opposing points of view |
| <a href="http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html">condemning</a> our convention and |
| <a href="http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml">condoning</a> |
| it. Bringing this up for debate on a mailing list will add nothing |
| new and is considered off-topic. |
| </p> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="Archives"> |
| <p>Archives Carrying Struts Lists</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/SummarizeList?listId=41">List Index on nagoya.apache.org</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/user%40struts.apache.org/">Mail-Archive</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-user&r=1&w=2">MARC: Mailing list ARChives</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.servlets.com/archive/servlet/SummarizeList?listName=struts-user">Servlets.com servlet and JSP list archives</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="Subscribing"> |
| <p> |
| Now that you've read the guidelines (you <em>have</em> read the rest of the page, haven't you?), please subscribe to |
| whichever Struts lists are of interest. |
| </p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| |
| <li> |
| <strong>STRUTS-ANNOUNCE Mailing List</strong> - Subscribe to this list |
| to receiving only major announcements regarding Struts. This is a low-volume, |
| read-only list.<br /> |
| [<a href="mailto:announce-subscribe@struts.apache.org">Subscribe</a>]<br /> |
| [<a href="mailto:announce-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org">Unsubscribe</a>] |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <strong>STRUTS-USER Mailing List</strong> - Subscribe to this list |
| to communicate with other developers that are using |
| Struts for their own applications, including questions about the |
| installation of Struts, and the usage of particular Struts features.<br /> |
| [<a href="mailto:user-subscribe@struts.apache.org">Subscribe</a>]<br /> |
| [<a href="mailto:user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org">Unsubscribe</a>] |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <strong>STRUTS-DEV Mailing List</strong> - Subscribe to this mailing |
| list to communicate with other developers interested in expanding and |
| improving the functionality supported by Struts itself.<br /> |
| [<a href="mailto:dev-subscribe@struts.apache.org">Subscribe</a>]<br /> |
| [<a href="mailto:dev-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org">Unsubscribe</a>] |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <strong>STRUTS-USER Digest</strong> - Subscribe to this list to receive |
| a daily digest of the Struts USER list.<br /> |
| [<a href="mailto:user-digest-subscribe@struts.apache.org">Subscribe</a>]<br /> |
| [<a href="mailto:user-digest-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org">Unsubscribe</a>]<br /> |
| If you subscribe to the Digest, you can also post to the User list. |
| (Just don't quote the entire Digest mailing in a reply!) |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <strong>STRUTS-USER Newsgroup</strong> - The User list is also mirrored online, |
| so that you can participate <strong>without</strong> subscribing to the regular mailing |
| list.<br /> |
| [<a href="http://www.proj.com/subscribe.jsp">Struts Newsgroup</a>]<br /> |
| This is another way to post to the User list without subscribing to the |
| regular list. <br/> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </section> |
| <section> |
| <p class="right"> |
| <strong>Back to:</strong> <a href="using.html">Using Struts</a> |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| </body> |
| </document> |