I follow most of the Eclipse development mailing-lists because they are low-traffic, and typically only carry conversations relevant to the development side, as opposed to the storm of questions and puzzlers that hit the newsgroups. Periodically you will receive a “Hey, how can I do this?” followed briefly by a “Please ask further questions on the newsgroup”.

Recently, however, Duong Nguyen (an IBM employee) has seemingly opened pandora’s box by answering the questions on the mailing list that are asked, without tempering the response with a newsgroup redirect. As such, the floodgates are open, and platform-swt-dev is now chattering in my inbox like some lonely toddler.