From: Chad Perrin Date: 2006-01-04T09:52:03+09:00 Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Proposed new rule On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:04:45AM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote: > > [SOLUTION] implies [QUIZ], I think, so we can drop the repatition. > Of course, now what you are suppose to put in the subject is getting > more complicated, which probably decreases the chance that it will > happen. That might be a reason to stick with just [QUIZ]. Opinions? I think prefacing subject lines with [QUIZ] makes good sense, and it can be encouraged by having a header or footer in new quiz threads that makes that convention known to readers. Confusing the issue by asking people to use two different subject preface terms will probably just lead to more people accidentally ignoring the convention, however, and I think needlessly complicates the situation, so I'd advocate sticking with [QUIZ] for all of it. It has been suggested that other preface terms be used for other traffic here. I don't see this as being a particularly likely convention to actually help anything, since it won't be specifically prompted in threads that are started by someone not in a position to necessarily know about these conventions. For instance, someone new to the list might not notice that he or she is supposed to start question thread subjects with [QUESTION] (to say nothing of the fact that's quite a bit of extra typing), and a convention like that is worse than no such convention when it's only adhered to haphazardly, in my opinion. > > If the traffic is bothering people, we could also consider moving > Ruby Quiz to it's own mailing list. Do speak up, if we're bugging > you... I'd prefer to keep it on ruby-talk, personally. I don't really participate, so I wouldn't pick up the new list, but I like to see what quizzes come up, and I like to think about the problem domain when I see it. I guess what I'm saying is that it's better for the lazy readers like myself to have it on ruby-talk rather than making it separate. -- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);