From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-08-15T04:30:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19725] Re: Ruby Newbie mailing list (RubyNewbie website?)

In article <000a01c124c1$845d7550$9806800a@corp.pla>,
Louis Brothers <lcb134@psu.edu> wrote:
>Dave Vandervort wrote:
>
>>Michael Pence wrote:
>
>>> I had in mind a newbie-helping-newbie kind of list, not spreading our
>>> gurus any thinner.
>
>>The obvious pitfall of having the blind leading the blind might be
>>mitigated if people take the attitude that they'll try to work through
>>problems together.
>
>>Maybe learning is best with a teacher, but students often benefit from
>>study groups of their peers, too.
>
>>I'll join the list if it comes into being.
>
>>Dave
>
>The sticking point for me, and if I am understanding properly, for several
>others, is that we don't want to break off into two lists.  Perhaps though
>we could add something to the subject of all the messages creating a
>distinction between a self proclaimed newbie question and a more advanced
>question.  Heck, then you could run a filter on it if you didn't want to see
>it.  Perhaps there is even ML software that allows this to be done in a nice
>manner... perhaps newbies could only see the newbie posts if they opted.
>
>But perhaps we're trying to solve a problem that could be better addressed
>in different ways.  Maybe we could advertise on the list that the first week
>of every month is newbie question answering week where we all take extra
>time to answer newbie questions of all shapes and sizes.

How about a RubyNewbie website, something like PerlMonks.  Or maybe this 
could be a section added to RubyGarden or even RubyCookbook?

Phil