I have just been thinking about the thread that is carrying on here about someones about the need for a tool that's like the wiki but not the wiki. And I was thinking how about the mailing list?? Most mail servers come with commands such as lists and help for majordomo. How about we add some commands to the ruby-talk server( it's written in ruby right?? ) such as "code"( to browse the code snippets ). There would be commands for organizing them, selecting only specific code, code that behaves in a certian way( does a specific task ), code that uses a certain function/feature, commands to retrieve the dicussion surrounding it, functionality similar to the wiki, etc. It might be better to use a client to for some of this fuctionality though. Best of all, it's all in one place. ie we don't have to leave the list. I can just sit at my ruby-talk client and collaboate and dicuss, etc. What do you think?? Too much work?? Not such a great idea??

Sincerly,
Chris Moline