From: Pat Eyler <pate@...>
Date: 2001-12-19T02:15:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28877] Re: [Announcement] Ruby news weekly

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Curt Hibbs wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Guy N. Hurst [mailto:gnhurst@hurstlinks.com]
> > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 8:19 PM
> >
> > Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > > Yes.  And I'd like to add addresses like LWN to the list.
> > > Will anybody propose the name of the new list?
> > >
>
> I know its fun to think up cool new names, and I hate to sound "boring", but
> the pragmatist in  me says that in the long run the Ruby community would be
> better served with an obvious, self-describing name like:
>
>    Ruby Weekly News
>    Ruby News Weekly
>    Ruby News Digest
>
> It will be obvious to anyone (even those who have not yet been converted)
> what it is all about. It will get indexed by search engines in a manner that
> people searching for ruby news might actually find it.

An additional option would be to join the Kernel-Cousins mailing list
reviews.  There are already reviews for;  the linux kernel, the
debian-hurd project, gimp, kde, and gnue (among others).  Having ruby
there as well might be nice.  (I don't have a url handy, but they can be
found linked from linuxtoday.com)

-pate


>
> Just my two cents...
>
> Curt
>
>