Re: c.l.j.* etiquette/FAQ (WAS: vijaya)

Oliver Wong wrote:
"Daniel Pitts" <googlegroupie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1162238668.967262.44090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Anyway, seeing these frequent (re)offenders of usenet etiquette makes
me want to know more about common courtesy. At least the c.l.j.*
groups. Is there a FAQ somewhere?


The general newsgroup etiquette (which you can find by googling for "newsgroup etiquette") applies here. In this case, Andrew was complaining about multiposting, and about the poor choice for a subject line.

As for c.l.j.* in particular, there's http://www.riters.com/JINX but it looks like it's having some server problems right now (I get HTTP 500 errors). It's a wiki that some of the regulars in the c.l.j.* contribute to. In addition to information on Java, there's a page devoted to newsgroup etiquette in the specific context of the c.l.j.* tree (e.g. how to post a stack trace, etc.).

- Oliver



I've found these URLS to be useful for general netiquette ...

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/writing-style/part1/
http://www.physci.org/codes/sscce/
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/emily-postnews/part1/

Roedy's website had some good advice relating to Java newsgroups
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html
but I've been getting "connection refused" for that URL for a day or so now :-(
.