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Comment: urge users to search list archive first before posting questions to list

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The information contained in this page is unoffical advice rather than rules that have been officially adopted by the Commons team. It was founded by observations of the goings on in the commons from the subproject's creation till the present.

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Mailing Lists

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The commons components share just two lists. Questions about components are best asked on commons-user. Development is organized on commons-dev. Before posting questions to the \[http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#Velocity list\], users can search the combined user/dev \[http://www.nabble.com/Jakarta-Commons-f292.html list archive\] (hosted by \[http://www.nabble.com Nabble\])to see if the question has been answered before.

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When sending mail, please add a prefix containing the name of the component. For example, if the mail concerns *commons-foo*, the subject should be prefixed with *\[foo\]*. The volumes on the development list are high. This can be difficult to manage without using filters to sort the mail. Most email clients allow filtering on subject and this convention allow developers to pick out the components they are interested in more quicky.  

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