From: Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
Date: 2002-01-23T17:14:39+09:00
Subject: Re: about time for seperate lists?

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:57, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to bring up a point here on the list that maybe some of you
> other Ruby-ites out there have thought of as well. I think it's time for
> seperate lists in the Ruby community. I left it go without reading any
> messages today, and I received 115 messages on this list alone. That's
> three times what I got from all other mail/news sources combined.
>
> Perhaps ruby-talk could be broken up into ruby-dev, ruby-newbie and
> ruby-misc, or something similar. People could still subsribe to all the
> lists if they wanted, but the deluge of messages might be lessened by
> breaking up the list into logical partitions.
>
> I don't mean to complain, but 115 messages is a lot to read every day, and
> I have other things to do, as I'm sure many of you other subscribers do,
> too. If I am out of line, please just say so, and you'll never hear another
> peep from me again about it. But I really think that a lot of people could
> benefit from breaking the list up.
>
> What do you all think?

I don't mind either way personally, but for what you are saying about the 
volume is the reason why Phil Tomson and I do the Ruby Weekly News. If the 
volume is getting to high for your liking perhaps that can help you?

- -- 
Signed,
Holden Glova
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