On 06/01/2005 08:01 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote: > On May 31, 2005, at 6:26 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote: > >> I've seen a lot of requests on here for them to go and no one begging >> for them to stay. I'll add my voice: I think they belong on a >> website, not here. > > > Glenn Parker pointed out that there was some support for the statistics > before I made this post. I apologize to any and all people I > misrepresented there. My bad. > > I've also noticed the rising support since my post. Clearly some > people like the statistics. > > I was wrong. > > Again, I apologize for not checking enough of the back messages before > I posted. > > James Edward Gray II > > P.S. I, personally, am much more interested in the long term trends of > Ruby Talk. If the statistics could evolve to include this or if > someone else is looking for a statistics project, that would be my > request. I would happily go search some web site when I wanted the > information too. :) Just FYI. That's nice of you. FYI, I read and watch every post, and never killfiled anyone till date, but simply ignore the trolls and, or posts for which I don't have an appropriate reply. OTOH, It is notable that people over here have been throwing as big a 27.3 Kb posts, but nobody have bothered to care and, or warn them; even including me :( ----- evidence follows ----- Path: x-privat.org!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c02.usenetserver.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!agilent.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <1114618790.74543 / cswreg.cos.agilent.com> From: Brett Williams <brett_williams / agilent.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: tk_optionMenu bug in 1.8.2 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:19:49 -0600 References: <20050426.224546.74726132.nagai / ai.kyutech.ac.jp> <1114543272.399518 / cswreg.cos.agilent.com> <20050427134711.1A7CE290.ocean / m2.ccsnet.ne.jp> <20050427.180404.74748274.nagai / ai.kyutech.ac.jp> Lines: 705 Organization: Agilent Technologies NNTP-Posting-Host: cswreg.cos.agilent.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------000400030303070702020802" X-Trace: cswtrans.cos.agilent.com 1114618790 7510 130.29.154.45 (27 Apr 2005 16:19:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet / cswtrans.cos.agilent.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:19:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20050427.180404.74748274.nagai / ai.kyutech.ac.jp> Cache-Post-Path: cswreg.cos.agilent.com!unknown / darkshore.ftc.agilent.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Xref: news.sebs.org.in comp.lang.ruby:1480 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000400030303070702020802 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ---- evidence ends ---- Whereas, some of the learned posters have been treating these less than 3 kb stats and much informative reports as a noise on the list ruby-talk and, or comp.lang.ruby newsgroup. -- Dr Balwinder Singh Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 CLLO (Chief Linux Learning Officer) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Anu's Linux@HOME Distros: Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix More: http://anu.homelinux.net/~bsd/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/