From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-06-06T21:15:39+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-forum.com

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 21:03 +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 6/6/06, Florian Gross <florgro@gmail.com> 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.

Just that would be an improvement, IMO.

> 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.

In evolution, subject lines are okay but when I hit reply to a
ruby-forum message its headers are set up to go to the newsgroup rather
than the list. That's pretty annoying now they're separate (and
ruby-forum posts don't seem to hit the newsgroup anyway).

-- 
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk