I also got into Ruby before Rails (although only by a period of a few months so I was still a Ruby newbie when Rails first started making news). I also have experience the "Ruby can do XYZ" with my responding "didn't everybody know that". I also enjoyed the discussion on ruby-talk for a long while. But as Ruby continues to get more popular the volume on the mailing list got so high that I couldn't keep up with it. The content is good but the volume is just too much to keep up with. Seems to be a common problem on the best newgroups. Wish there was a way to combat that volume in a sensible way.
avdi
· 1 year ago
Eric:
The best way I know is with a good client. I'm making do with GMail and filters right now - when I can't keep up I just archive everything with the "Lists" tag in one shot. But eventually I plan on starting to use GNUS again. It does help to have a client that's able to help you find the threads of interest to you and ignore the ones you could care less about.
Kevin C
· 1 year ago
"One of the biggest disconnects for me is the fact that almost no one I know in the Railsverse reads ruby-talk regularly."
That puts me in pretty good standing since you know I read it ;) .. need to work on contributing more but want to keep the S/N to a minimum.
foo
· 1 year ago
I wrote a post, and then your site lost thanks to some stupid open ID hook. Thanks for wasting my time
gambling
· 8 months ago
Well.. I was actually into Ruby before being introduced to Rails.
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The best way I know is with a good client. I'm making do with GMail and filters right now - when I can't keep up I just archive everything with the "Lists" tag in one shot. But eventually I plan on starting to use GNUS again. It does help to have a client that's able to help you find the threads of interest to you and ignore the ones you could care less about.
That puts me in pretty good standing since you know I read it ;)
.. need to work on contributing more but want to keep the S/N to a minimum.