From: Damphyr Date: 2003-04-05T20:01:07+09:00 Subject: Re: Suggestion for Ruby Weekly News Sam Roberts wrote: > Quoteing drbrain@segment7.net, on Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 03:47:04AM +0900: ..... > 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. I have to agree. ruby-talk has a rather small volume of messages per day. Enough so that if I leave it for 3 days I'wont have to spend three hours reading my backlog. Let's see, it's been 14 hours since I checked my email and ruby-talk has 24 new messages, two of whom are spam and one in japanese (which I also think is spam - somebody with knowledge of japanese please confirm :) ). Any of the jakarta-apache mailing lists would have triple this ammount in the rush hours. I don't agree with splitting the mailing-list according to topic, not when the volume remains at these levels. Filtering is easy, all messages have a reply-to header of ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org and/or a to: of the same. And as you very nicely pointed out for me, we don't get those pesky cross-postings (and the associated "sorry for the cross-post, but this is probably interesting for all" messages). V.- -- http://www.freemail.gr - ������ �������� ������������ ������������.