From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T00:34:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [USENET] - Time for "comp.lang.ruby.announce" ?

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2005 3:24 AM, Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com> wrote:
> 
>>[sidenote: this topic is not my main intrest. I've just noticed
>>the high announce traffic - which simply looks amateurish when
>>posted on the central usenet-group. I for myself will simply
>>filter out the traffic.]
> 
> Aha. There's the problem.

of course.

non-channelized traffic is my problem.

> I would suspect that more than half of the people whom you see
> posting aren't posting to a Usenet newsgroup.
> 
> We're posting to a mailing list.

ok, but you understand that is not relevant where the traffic comes from.

It remains annoying.

> If you're going to judge "amateurish" and "pro" based on the threads
> in a newsgroup or a mailing list, then there are other problems at
> hand, and it's not with the presence or absence of certain
> discussion threads.
> 
> -austin

The ruby group with all it's (at least correctly tagged) "[ANN]" and 
(for my bad luck untagged) "ADVOCACY" threads ("hey, ruby is mentioned 
here and there" etc.) is amateurish, compared to python, perl, tcl, php.

-

I would like to see an unmoderated comp.lang.ruby.announce - which is 
(in contrarity to other groups) free for discussion of the announced stuff.

Basicly, an announce group could be used for advocacy subjects, too 
(tagged with e.g. ADVOCACY).

-

But for now, I'm happy with my filters.

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