From: Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
Date: 2004-06-13T05:30:44+09:00
Subject: Re: "www.ruby-lang.org"  still  down for maintenance - thats not good

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Cere M. Davis wrote:

> Also, not easy to deal with is when the news server doesn't let you post
> anymore unless you are subscribed to the ruby-talk list....which sort of
> defeats the point of a news server.

When I first started trying Ruby, I quit using the newsfeed as quickly as 
I could.  I'm one of those who considers it to be a bad idea.
 
> As an admin I really sympathize with the admins that are dealing with this
> problem but as a Ruby newbie I must admit that this state of brokenness is
> making me a little nervous about my Ruby based projects that I am
> embarking on.  I'm somewhat of a beginner and I really rely on help from
> others through forums, documentation and web sites.

Ruby doesn't yet have the "big bucks" behind it the way a number of other 
languages do.  Perhaps if a company like O'Reilly were to take an interest 
in taking care of the web site things would be different.  I wish I could 
do more to help, but I'm not sure what to do. I am sure that I really want 
to see Matz continue to follow his muse and work on the language 
development instead of being distracted by trying to promote it.

-- Matt
Weinberg's Law: If builders built buildings the way that programmers wrote
programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.