From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-05-28T22:41:29+09:00
Subject: Re: separating ruby-talk from comp.lang.ruby? (please no!)

On Friday, May 28, 2004, 10:59:07 PM, Hans wrote:

> Some people like myself don't have the time or inclination to be 
> subscribed to YAHVML (yet another high-volume mailing list), but would
> like to participate and/or lurk on a semiregular basis. The newsgroup,
> however imperfect, is perfect for this. A mailing list, archives or no,
> is not. So my vote is keep the newsgroup!

The problem with semiregular lurkers is that they don't notice
Professor Black's repeated reminders that the newsgroup is not going
anywhere ;)

Cheers,
Gavin