From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2006-05-03T05:21:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Re-post: [Mailing list -> ruby-forum.com broken?] On 5/2/06, Minkoo Seo wrote:> So, we have three lists?> 1) comp.lang.ruby> 2) ruby-talk> 3) ruby-form.com We have ruby-talk. This has been mirrored for a long time withcomp.lang.ruby. I haven't heard anything reliable from the originalmirror person, but it would be nice if someone picked that up again.In the last year, ruby-forum.com went live and shortly thereafter, amirror with ruby-talk was created (also one with the Rails list). My problem is that for every good posting and question we get fromruby-forum.com, we get ten nonsensical ones that could have beensolved with a three-second Google search. The problem *isn't* thegateway as such, it's that forums are the bottom of the barrel when itcomes to what people actually do, and there's not enough indication tothe users of ruby-forum.com that this is going to both a mailing listand a newsgroup as well as the forum, so they ask their questions inforum-style. Which is to say, badly spelled and poorly considered. I would much rather see ruby-forum.com act differently with respect tothe ruby-talk mailing list. First, the current "Ruby" forum shouldprobably be renamed and be a read-only view of ruby-talk andcomp.lang.ruby. Second, a new forum should be posted for discussionpurposes. Third, code could be added for moderated questions to bemigrated from the forum discussions to be posted to ruby-talk fordiscussion there. The forum currently makes it too easy to forget that you're dealingwith people who do *not* have the full thread in front of them becausethey're not using the forum. It just looks like it. -austin--Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca