From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-03-31T21:34:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [USENET] - Time for "comp.lang.ruby.announce" ?

Robert McGovern <robert.mcgovern@gmail.com> writes:

>> Personally, I'd be fine if we _didn't_ have a separate announce group.
>> I like seeing the announcements as part of the stream, and they often
>> provoke good discussions.
>> 
>> But then, I think the whole idea of splitting off Usenet groups into
>> mutually exclusive groups is a sort of old-school,
>> hierarchical-division maneuver whose need is obviated by good clients &
>> search interfaces: Google groups, any auto-threading newsgroup or
>> mailing list client, etc., etc.
>
> +1

+1, but a newsgroup (or Gmane mirror) of all messages matching /^\[ANN\]/
could be rather useful to some (busy) people, though.  Still, they
could read RWN as well.

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