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Re: You should be on ruby-talk

gambling — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:08:40 -0000

Well.. I was actually into Ruby before being introduced to Rails.

Re: You should be on ruby-talk

foo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:20:24 -0000

I wrote a post, and then your site lost thanks to some stupid open ID hook. Thanks for wasting my time

Re: You should be on ruby-talk

Kevin C — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:05:26 -0000

"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.

Re: You should be on ruby-talk

avdi — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:59:27 -0000

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.

Re: You should be on ruby-talk

Eric Anderson — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:01:24 -0000

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.