From: Sy Date: 2005-04-16T07:19:47+09:00 Subject: Re: ettiquette question > On Apr 15, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Chris Pine wrote: > > > So how does this ammended plan sound? > -1 Posting regularly seems like adding more noise to the ML. It's not relevant to people who have been here for more than a month, and not relevant to people who already do Ruby (and probably already know about your work) Don't the members of this ML have to pass through all sorts of other Ruby-related resources before finding us and signing up here? -- i.e. wouldn't it be more effective to make a permanent signpost at one of those resources? All I can say is that I am one of those newbies who such posting would be targetted towards, and I can guarantee that by the second posting I'd be annoyed. Yes, I'd set a filter to nuke further repeat posts. That having been said, I already did a _lot_ of research before signing up to the ML, and so I know about a good 80% of the basic news outlets, tutorials, books, etc. and that includes your tutorial. There is _always_ going to be more stuff out there to find, and I'd be pleased if someone posted a regular newsletter talking about the top five new Ruby-related websites.. but hearing the same old news would just not interest me. So, playing devil's advocate, I have to ask.. who is your audience and how can you best reach them? Frankly, I think the occasional random mention of a good resource like yours is better received if someone random responds to a thread with it. If you really wanted to be active (and also self-promote) then the best thing you could do is found a newbie mailing list (I'd sign up!) and every couple of weeks release a newsletter which included a tutorial excerpt, a new newbie challence and a couple of interesting resources. With community feedback, you wouldn't run out of interesting ideas for the next newsletter. A cool (searchable!) archive of such letters would be an excellent resource too!