----- Original Message -----
From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker / jump.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: sorta OT (ISPs and comp.lang.ruby, browsing ruby-talk mail list
without signup.)


> ((Posted to comp.lang.ruby and ruby-talk ML.))
>
> Hi,
>
> I think your sorta off topic post is actually sorta on topic,
> administratively at least....
>
> From: maker
>
> > I cannot wait until all the news servers are carrying this group.
>
> While many ISPs (semi-)automatically add newsgroups upon receiving the
> newsgroups.announce notification, in many cases people will have to ask
> their less proactive ISPs to add groups that were created since the ISP
was
> set up. From what I've seen, people who had to wait for more than a day or
> so for their ISPs to carry comp.lang.ruby are still ... waiting. So don't
> wait--investigate!--i.e. call them, send them e-mail, or whatever.
>
> Meanwhile, the rest of us are waiting for the ruby-talk ML <-->
> comp.lang.ruby gateway to become operational.
>
> Maybe it fell prey to the waiting for tardy ISP syndrome. Does anyone
> reading this have some more recent news about this project? Hundreds, if
not
> thousands, of inquiring minds want to know.
>
> > The sense of awe I felt from having my inbox stuffed with
> > hundreds of Ruby Talk posts wore off after about two days.
>
> For those who are not on ruby-talk ML and would like in the mean time to
see
> what is being discussed (without signing up), point your browser to:
>
>     http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml
>
> and click on the highest numbered range of numbers to see the most recent
> series of postings
>
> > Let me add however, if the quality of the information posted
> > on Ruby Talk is an indicator of how things will go here,
> > then this is going to be one...well, awesome usenet group.
>
> That's what I was hoping when I first started working on the
comp.lang.ruby
> RFD. Since then, traffic on ruby-talk ML has more than doubled.
>
> > So, start posting so I can soak up all of that accumulated
> > Ruby wisdom!
>
> Conrad
>
>
>