From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) Date: 2002-01-24T04:54:53+09:00 Subject: Re: [POLL]: ruby-talk seperation In article <1011815061.15159.10.camel@smiddle.civic.twp.ypsilanti.mi.us>, Sean Middleditch wrote: >On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 14:34, Dave Thomas wrote: >> ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) writes: >> >> > I'm not going to suggest any new lists - there are good partitions already >> > mentioned. I do want to suggest that all the new lists be mirrored to >> > comp.lang.ruby so that readers of the newsgroup get the 'big picture'. >> > If we don't do that I'm afraid there will be too much fragmentation in the >> > community - sure, we're growing in numbers, but the Ruby community is >> > still relatively small so it wouldn't be advisable to split it too much >> > just yet. >> >> But how would I direct stuff posted to the newgroup? aye, there's the rub... > >Either throw it into both lists, or make a separate list for newsgroup >postings.. ? Perhaps we'll have to require newsgroup posters to tag the subject like: [ruby-dev] Great idea for new VM! [ruby-ann] Announcing Ruby 2.0! etc. If they don't tag, then it'll just go into the generic ruby-talk list. We'd have to put something about this in the comp.lang.ruby FAQ. Phil