From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-05-27T00:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: separating ruby-talk from comp.lang.ruby?

Phil Tomson wrote:
> Personally, I think there is already too much fragmentation in Ruby-land.  

Agreed, but only in terms of the various websites for Ruby resources 
(sometimes I can't remember all of the them: ruby-doc.org, 
ruby-lang.org, whyruby, rubyforge, rubygarden, rubycentral, etc etc).

In terms of mailing list, no. Other languages have many separate 
lists/newsgroups too.

* Python also has comp.lang.python <-> python-list gateway going on, and 
it has way more separate lists (python-sig, python-win32, 
python-bugs-list, python-announce, etc).

* Perl doesn't even mirror comp.lang.perl and its mailing lists hosted 
at @perl.org. Also there are several lists at Activestate.

> Separating ruby-talk from comp.lang.ruby would only make it worse.  I 
> would have to keep up with two different forums if they are separated.
> To find information people would have to do a search at both 
> groups.google.com and on www.ruby-talk.org.

> I have always preferred reading comp.lang.ruby over subscribing to 
> ruby-talk (too much mail).  I really hope we can keep the two connected.

-- 
dave