From: Dylan Northrup <docx@...>
Date: 2010-04-15T05:09:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Who maintains ruby-talk?

A long time ago, (15.04.10), in a galaxy far, far away, Intransition wrote:

:=Of course, if your heart is set on using your inbox, then the trick is
:=to black list people like thunk --of course then you'll miss it when
:=thunk actually says something useful... well maybe not, but you get
:=the point.

And you'll get false negatives as well when people respond to him because
they aren't filtering.  Centralized filtering reduces the chances that
someone else will respond in addition to reducing the overall bandwidth
usage of the list.

:=I setup the Google Group archive, and I can black list people at that
:=end if I want, I have never done so (expect obvious spam). I almost
:=did so for thunk however. But in the end I decided just to give it a
:=few days, and as usually the noise eventually died down.

I am currently taking a wait and see attitude as well. . . but if things
don't improve, unsubscribing is definitely an option.

-- 
Dylan Northrup - docx@io.com - http://www.io.com/~docx/
"Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet."
    - Aimee Mullins