From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker@...>
Date: 2002-01-24T19:35:56+09:00
Subject: Re: about time for seperate lists?

"Martin Weber" <Ephaeton@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:57:46PM +0900, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> > What do you all think?
>
> Like others said, I don't think it would be good to spin off
> ruby-newbie, but what about
>
> o ruby-dev [hey, this one exists already, eh ?]
> o ruby-announce [ANN]
> o ruby-gui [Questions about ruby-(g)tk/fox/qt/whatsoever]
> o ruby-talk [the rest]

While reinventing wheels, don't forget to reinvent this one:

    o comp.lang.perl.modules.

In another post, someone mentioned to the effect that 100 posts a day on
(comp.lang.ruby NG or ruby-talk ML) was a lot. Actually, that is considered
the nominal threshold for which a newsgroup in the big 8 hierarchy is
justified, with obvious exceptions for things like comp.lang.*.announce. To
keep things in perspective, peruse comp.lang.python and comp.lang.perl.misc
from time to time.

Needless to say, if you don't use a tolerably good threading newsreader or
threading mail program (or if you aren't sure what that means), now is a
good time to investigate. They are a big timesaver for selective reading and
catch-up/skipping.

Conrad