From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2006-06-06T21:03:25+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby-forum.com On 6/6/06, Florian Gross wrote: > Hal Fulton wrote: >> Who owns ruby-forum.com and why is it connected >> to the mailing list? >> Is this policy open for discussion? > I think it being connected to the mailing list has a lot of benefits and > as far as I know there has been no spam caused by it yet. No, not spam. If, however, you look at the quality of postings that originate there, there's a lot of trollish and generally impolite behaviour. > It would be cool if it had support for receiving attachments, though. It'd be even cooler if it had more than a single line in the main list of "forums" that the "Ruby Forum" is a gateway to the ruby-talk mailing list. Or if the posting forum didn't allow you to post to ruby-talk's gateway as a guest. Or if it even said "hey, moron! you're not just posting to a web forum here! you're posting to a mailing list!" I really like the effort that Andreas has put into Ruby-Forum and it's good software, but I think that there are impedance mismatch issues with its use as a mailing list gateway. I don't know how much it affects people who use "real" threading mail and newsreaders, but it also mangles subject lines and messes up Google's grouping in gmail. There's a definite etiquette problem, and unless something is changed, I *do* think that the benefits are outweighed by the negatives. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca