In article <a2lqdl$foo / ftp.ee.vill.edu>,
Tobias DiPasquale <anany / ece.villanova.edu> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'd like to bring up a point here on the list that maybe some of you
>other Ruby-ites out there have thought of as well. I think it's time for
>seperate lists in the Ruby community. I left it go without reading any
>messages today, and I received 115 messages on this list alone. That's
>three times what I got from all other mail/news sources combined. 
>
>Perhaps ruby-talk could be broken up into ruby-dev, ruby-newbie and 
>ruby-misc, or something similar. People could still subsribe to all the lists if
>they wanted, but the deluge of messages might be lessened by breaking 
>up the list into logical partitions. 
>
>I don't mean to complain, but 115 messages is a lot to read every day, and
>I have other things to do, as I'm sure many of you other subscribers do, too.
>If I am out of line, please just say so, and you'll never hear another peep
>from me again about it. But I really think that a lot of people could benefit
>from breaking the list up.
>
>What do you all think?

You could read the comp.lang.ruby newsgroup instead of subscribing to the 
ml - that's what I do, I'd get way too much email otherwise.  The mailing 
list gets 'mirrored' there.  

If there were to be three different mailing lists as you suggest, it would 
probably be best if they were all three mirrored at comp.lang.ruby.

Phil