From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2004-09-08T23:41:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Nuby forum

On Sep 8, 2004, at 8:52 AM, David Ross wrote:

> your second accessment is what I meant.

Not quite.  See below...

> ex.
>
> - I sent email to ruby.newprogrammers, it goes to that
> list only

The majority here has expressed a strong desire to see what goes on in 
any Nuby forum, so this doesn't seem like the way to go.

My suggestion was that ALL Nuby messages be moved to Ruby Talk and gain 
a [NUBY] if needed.  That seems to keep Ruby Talk in the loop, as many 
have requested.  Plus, if anyone isn't interested in the Nuby list 
traffic it's trivial to filter out.

> - I send another one with "[RT] help me" to
> ruby.newprogrammers, it goes to the Ruby-talk list as
> well

This seems wrong to me, simply because it requires intimate knowledge 
of how the messages are handled.  The people of this list have asked to 
stay informed and Nubies want help from those in the know, so it seems 
this should be the default behavior.

> - I send emails all day to ruby-talk, they stay there,
> if I post a reply to one which is prefixed by [RT], it
> goes to the ruby.newprogrammers list

This really confuses me.  Posting to Ruby Talk with [RT] (presumably 
short for "Ruby Talk") sends the message to Ruby Nuby?  That doesn't 
make sense to me.

It seems like 90% of the messages that are sent to Ruby Talk and need 
to be forwarded are going to be replies to posts that came from there 
with answers to their questions.  With the above procedures in place, 
those replies should have a [NUBY] in their subject, so the default 
behavior should be to move those messages across.

The special cases are that a Ruby Talk response may not need to go back 
(I expect this would be pretty rare) or a Ruby Talk post should also 
appear on the Nuby list.  Adding and removing the [NUBY] handles both 
of these, as needed.

This keeps all the tricky cases handled on the Ruby Talk side, which 
seems best.  Well, those are my thoughts, at any rate.

James Edward Gray II