From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-12-24T03:54:36+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-misc (was Re: where have all the experienced users gone?)


Gerardo Santana G�mez Garrido wrote:

> Nothing personal Tom, it just happened that yours is the last message
> I've received from this thread.
>
> Just look at you guys. Talking and talking. It's the 74th message I
> receive from this thread.
>
> And it happens all the time.
>
> I used to read this list. Well, I still do, but less frequently,
> because of these long and most of the time unproductive chats.
>
> I used to come here frequently to learn, and was willing to help too.
> But there are too many "e-mail chats" I'm not interested on, mixed
> with relevant and very insightful ones.
>
> Nowadays I pick some messages here and there to read, looking for gems
> in this large pool of irrelevant stuff. Attending ruby-talk is not
> pleasant any more.
>
> I agree with being nice, but we can send someone to read the fine
> manual in a nice way too, instead of doing his/her homework everytime.
>
> It would help also avoiding messages that most of the time are useless
> like "+1" or ":)", you get the idea.
>
> Or probably I'm misunderstanding the purpose of ruby-TALK. Maybe
> ruby-TALK is a kind of offline IRC, or a social network like MSN
> Spaces.
>
> In that case, I apologize, and kindly ask for a real mailing list.
>
> Please.

That doesn't make any sense. You are contradicting yourself. On the one
had you are validating the point of the original thread, on the other
you condeming the thread as pointless. And I dare say you aren't
productively adding to the conversaion either.

Relevancy is relative. The hope is that we can better sort concerns and
reduce duplicity. Will this thread, or any thread for that matter,
prove productive? Who knows?! Only time can tell. I for one am glad
when there is 74+ posts of interest on a topic.

T.