From: "Jörg W Mittag" <JoergWMittag+Usenet@...>
Date: 2009-06-24T22:30:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Time for a ruby-announce list?

Trans wrote:
> We are seeing a lot or release announcements among the regular posts
> these days, taking up a larger and larger percentage of total posts.
> Perhaps if we have a separate list for them then:

We already have not one, but *two* such lists. What do you think a
third one would accomplish that two can't?

Also, the success hasn't exactly been overwhelming: the
rubynet-announce list has had exactly 20 mails in over 6 years(!), and
ruby-community-announcements had 28 mails in more than one year.

[...]
> 3) other people besides Ryan Davis would announce their projects ;-)

35% of the announcements on rubynet-announce@lists.rubynet.org are
from Daniel J Berg, 25% from Ryan Davis, 10% each from Anders
Bengtsson and Michael Davis and 5% each from David Alan Black, Simon
Strandgaard, Jeremy Hylton and Francis Hwang. So, around 70% of the
announcements are by the same people who *already* announce on
comp.lang.ruby. The numbers for ruby-community-announcements are
similar: the majority of mails are release announcements for Prawn
from Gregory Brown, S9 announcements from Gerald Bauer plus some stuff
from John Mettraux, Mike Mondragon and Matt Todd, all of whom already
announce on comp.lang.ruby, I believe.