From: "Benjamin L. Russell" <DekuDekuplex@...>
Date: 2009-06-24T20:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Time for a ruby-announce list?

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:05:45 -0500, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:

>
>From: "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@gmail.com>
>>
>> Now that is a philosophical question, personally I prefer to filter on
>> the ML address rather than on the subject line, seems much more
>> reliable. But it is a great thing to do in the meantime if one is
>> bothered ....
>
>Reliable in theory... :)
>
>I can imagine a rough equivalence between posters who
>currently don't know to use [ANN], and folks who would end
>up posting announcements to ruby-talk regardless of the
>existence of a separate "reliable" announce list.
>
>:)

In that case, why not establish a custom of starting discussion of
announcements and topics concerning thereof on [ANN], to be moved to
ruby-talk after a few rounds?  This system is already effectively in
use in at least one functional programming community.

That way, later participants would need to go back to [ANN] to catch
up on first rounds of discussions, so they would need to keep [ANN]
and its purpose in mind.

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