From: Danny Sofer Date: 2001-01-11T15:40:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:9115] Re: time to divide -talk? "Conrad Schneiker" wrote: > And of course switching over to using a newsgroup rather than using a mail > list is another major way of dealing with this issue. Guess what one of my > forward-looking motivations for getting comp.lang.ruby approved was? :-) i'm very new to ruby and to this group (or mailing list, for some you). when i stumbled on it last week it felt like a step back in time to before the world invaded usenet. time is now going to speed up. Conrad was forward-looking but you are going to need some fancy footwork to deal with what's coming. the list appears to have grown by a factor of two in the one week or so i've been on it (or is that just an xmas hangover?). anyone want to make a guess at what it's likely to be in six months? my guess is that matz is already tearing his hair out trying to keep up with the traffic on while continuing to develop the language and probably holding down a day job. well, matz, you've only got yourself to blame. who do you think you are creating a language this good? conclusion: someone do an rfc. by the time it's done we'll have the traffic to justify it. and de-couple comp.lang.ruby from the developers mailing list. danny.