From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2002-10-02T17:56:28+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-talk separation, part II


On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 06:26 PM, JamesBritt wrote:

> This seems like basically the same discussion that occurred back at the
> start of the year
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/32121
> What has changed since then?

How about 20,000 emails in 252 days?

>  I have no trouble following the volume on
> ruby-talk, and can (still) easily pick what threads to follow or 
> ignore.

Congratulations. I can't/won't... Many others can't. That's why I 
suggested we start announce@ and that's why sean put it on his server 
and that's why out of ALL of the people subscribed to this list we have 
less that 10 (guestimate) arguing against it.

> I have an interest in, for example, database programming, but I don't 
> want to
> subscribe to a list solely on that topic, as database programming only
> occupies a relatively small and sporadic amount of my time.

Who said you were limited to only one list? Subscribe to more than one, 
including -talk, and filter them to the same mailbox or whatever you 
want.

How detrimental is multiple lists to the ruby community (which we 
already have!)? It hasn't seemed to hurt FreeBSD, or apache, or linux, 
or postgresql, or mysql, or... you get the picture. For the most part, 
those are all thriving online communities.