On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Yasushi Shoji wrote:

> At Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:23:30 +0900,
> John Rubinubi wrote:
> 
> > Ruby *is* right for what I do (play with & learn Ruby) but I have to agree
> > with Stan that the volume of mail on this list is unmanagable. I wish
> > there was a lower volume mailing list aimed at beginners, (or at least
> > those not on the cutting edge) and not echoed to usenet.
> 
> well, i kinda agree.  these days (after Dr. Dobb's article?) -talk has
> about 100/day posts, which is much larger number compare to all three
> japanese lists combined.

I'm thrilled -- what's everyone's problem?  :-)

> I don't like the idea of beginners list (who's gonna answer questions
> if all of them are beginners ;), but having developper's list (for
> people who want to discuss about interpreter, some new features or
> some topic beginners don't wanna care) wouldn't kill -talk, would it?

Just to voice a bit of skepticism....  Has this kind of list-splitting
ever worked?  I'm thinking of Linux and Perl, mainly, and I'm thinking
of Usenet, mainly, so maybe there are exceptions.  (I've never been
on the Perl5 Porters list, so maybe that's one.)  But it always seems
that the splitting just results in a lot of cross-posting, and then
arguments about whether the cross-posting was appropriate, and so on.

Once again, I wish I had access to the Japanese Ruby lists, which
sound like they're pretty successful from this perspective.  


David

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