From: Bill Guindon Date: 2004-09-09T10:27:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby-Nuby forum On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:58:05 +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote: > Randy wrote: > >> My idea is that people here will know that someone asked a question > >> there immediately, not two weeks later. > >> > >> If anything interesting comes up in the answers to the question, we > >> can the summary of the thread back to ruby-talk, too. > > > > What if a person wants to follow both lists? I guess I don't much like > > the idea of cross-talk between the lists (one-way or two-way). If people > > want to be "in the loop" they subscribe to both lists. It's much, much > > simpler, and it gives people more flexibility in what messages they > > choose to see. > > +1 from me. > > ruby-talk is archived and floods people's inboxen daily. There's a time > and a place for forum-type chatter and simple Q&A, but the ruby-talk > archive and people's inboxen are not it! > > There will be enough people monitoring the forum to answer any simple > question. Difficult ones -- the minority -- can be relayed to ruby-talk > manually (by the person who wishes to answer), with great ease and > purpose. This is excatly what happens currently with IRC; the forum > should be no different. Yep, and it's also the perfect time to "graduate" the nuby to the main list if they've not been here yet. > My original suggestion for a fortnightly roundup of forum activity on > ruby-talk was aimed at low-volume information only, to satisfy > ruby-talkers' curiosity and gain some publicity for the forum. The > knowledge that there is activity there would draw more experts. maybe weekly, but either way, instant would be a bit much, and defeats the purpose to a degree. -- Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)