From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T07:04:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Off topic: What is "top posting" ??

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 02:33:39AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>>
>>No, in fact, it isn't. What you're actually reading is the result of a
>>gateway. The primary source for this forum (ruby-forum.com/ruby) or
>>this newsgroup (comp.lang.ruby) is a mailing list:
>>ruby-tak@ruby-lang.org.
> 
> Whoops.  I thought usenet was primary, and said something to that effect
> in a response to a separate subthread.  Ouch.  Mea culpa.
> 
> . . . though I prefer the mailing list version, personally, and that's
> what I'm using.

I'm not sure you can view either as "primary." The mailing
list came first, but the newsgroup is publicly postable
without signing up (a mixed blessing, of course).

And the gateway doesn't always work (and hasn't *always*
been there, although it dates to early in c.l.r history).


Hal