From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-01-04T01:10:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list

Hi --

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Michael Shigorin wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:39:56AM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> Who decides who the experts are?
>
> Those who have been thanked for useful answer on ruby-talk@,
> I guess.

That would include me, but I don't want to be put in a special
"experts" category or participate in any kind of stratification of the
community.  I really hate all demarcation by levels, ranks, point
systems, and the rest of it.  I know why they're done, and why people
like them, but I find them very unappealing.  That's actually
something I've always treasured about the Ruby world: we don't label
people "novice" and "apprentice" and "wizard" and all that.  We just
talk to each other.


David

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