From: Tobias DiPasquale Date: 2002-01-24T05:49:07+09:00 Subject: Re: about time for seperate lists? In article , "Phil Tomson" wrote: > In article , 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? > > You could read the comp.lang.ruby newsgroup instead of subscribing to > the ml - that's what I do, I'd get way too much email otherwise. The > mailing list gets 'mirrored' there. > > If there were to be three different mailing lists as you suggest, it > would probably be best if they were all three mirrored at > comp.lang.ruby. > > Phil > It's funny that you mention that, because that's exactly what I do. I subscribed to the mailing list, and then gateway'd it to our news server. It's now vill.ruby-talk. But thanks anyway! :) -- << T o b i a s D i P a s q u a l e >> anany@ece.villanova.edu | tdipas01@villanova.edu | toby@khenry.com "Bill Gates comes to visit SoftImage and during an employee Q/A someone asks 'Since the Internet is all about free software, how come Microsoft is still charging for it?'" -- Adam Barr, __Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters__