From: Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>
Date: 2005-06-01T09:52:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

On 5/31/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On May 31, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Dr Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
> 
> > Hey, I have worked hard to make these stats available, not only for
> > you but the whole ruby community. FYI, these are being computed by
> > a *Ruby* script.
> >
> > I appreciate your feed back, but is not that more like a dictator's
> > appeal. I you realy hate these stats, just killfile these ;)
> 
> But did you check to see if they were desired?  :)
> 
> I've seen a lot of requests on here for them to go and no one begging
> for them to stay.  I'll add my voice:  I think they belong on a
> website, not here.

fwiw, I agree...

There *are* some stats in there that I am fairly interested in (count
of new posters, most active threads...), but I really think a data
sheet like this would be better served as a webpage, generated from a
database, with pretty little graphs in place of splat columns :) Links
to ruby-talk.org for messages would round it off nicely.

cheers,
Mark