From: Sam Roberts Date: 2003-04-05T05:00:47+09:00 Subject: Re: Suggestion for Ruby Weekly News Quoteing drbrain@segment7.net, on Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 03:47:04AM +0900: > Yuri Leikind (leikind@mova.org) wrote: > We should break up ruby-talk into topicful mailing lists. This way it > isn't diffucult to track all the miriad off-topic threads and tangent > discussions that go on in here. Absolutely! I recommend a new list: ruby-off-topic@ruby-lang.org Anybody who is about to post to ruby-talk, but realizes their post is not related to ruby, will be sure to post it to ruby-off-topic. We can also create a new list for public chastisements of those who post off-topic threads to ruby-talk, or on-topic threads to ruby-off-topic: ruby-users-who-will-never-use-ruby-again-after-getting-chastised-on-ruby-talk@perl.org Sam Btw, I don't personally think there is much traffic on ruby-talk. There seems to be about 5-10 new threads a day. Other than announcements, I don't see any clear categories large enough to warrant breaking into multiple lists. Having three lists each with only 2-3 new topics a day just seems mildly annoying. And if people can't figure out which to post to, they'll cross-post, and then we'll be seeing the same post several times! Also, isn't a small percentage of friendly chatter on a list a sign of a cheerful and active community? I think whether the current traffic is a burden might depend on your mail agent. Many thread email, so that an entire thread, after you've read the first post (or just the title), and decided its not of interest, can be deleted at once. Read linux-kernel. Now *that's* traffic.