From: Trans Date: 2006-12-31T02:12:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list Daniel Schierbeck wrote: > Hello fellow Rubyphilics! > > As other have remarked, the quality of this list is rapidly declining -- > not because of a lack of participation, but rather because of the > increase of the same. Each and every question, no matter how nubish, is > answered, which of course is good. But the deep, poignant (no pun > intended) discussions seem to have faded in both frequency and quality. > > I therefore propose we establish a ruby-experts (or the like) mailing > list intended for exactly those discussions. > > Thoughts? While I think it is a worthy idea. But I can tell you from experience it probably won't fly unless it gets offical's ruby-lang.org support or you are some sort of marketing guru. Personally I think all these [Typo] blogs are the bane of of ruby-talk. Most posts would be much better served on a mailing list anyway. Communicating through blog comments is disorganized, decentralized, lacks audiance and cohesion. I think Blog and Ego are too closely related. I hope that now that Time's man of the year is the Blogger (and other such narcissists.), people can get over the hype and get back to better ways of communicating. On occsaion when you do have a serious "blogicle" than submitting it to a big name blog like Redhanded is a much better idea --more like contributing to a web mag. MOLMHO (More Or Less My Humble Opinion), T.