From: David Alan Black Date: 2004-05-25T21:28:46+09:00 Subject: Re: separating ruby-talk from comp.lang.ruby? Hi -- Simon Strandgaard writes: > David Alan Black wrote: > [snip] > > I don't know exactly how such a decision would be made, but I figured > > the first step would be to see what people think of such a move (not > > the idea of mirroring per se, but the idea of turning off mirroring in > > light of the fact that it doesn't work). So.... ? > > I used the newsgroup, but it was a terrible mess, replies wasn't mirrored > correct.. etc. In paticular posts from you didn't show up on the newsgroup. > Some time ago I switched to instead using the mailing list, and its much > better. If your posts get through to the newsgroup. For me it doesn't work. I have to read the mailing list (to make sure I see everything), and then fire up a newsreader to actually reply to anything (unless I'm replying to something that never made it to the newsgroup...). > I wonder how google does it? It doesn't -- I mean, many of the ruby-talk posts never make it to Google. That's one way I became aware of the problem. David -- David A. Black dblack@wobblini.net