Stephen Waits
7/11/2006 8:21:00 PM
khaines@enigo.com wrote:
>
> Are these generated automatically to any post that mentions Ruby on Rails?
Absolutely not.
> If they are, would it not serve the purpose better to send a private
> message to the original poster to recruit them to the RoR mailing list?
Absolutely not. There are an awful lot of lurkers who might benefit
from public posting.
> I get really tired of opening an email to the list to see this, over and
> over again, especially when some of the threads, despite mentioning RoR
> in it somewhere, really are more general than that and are probably
> better served in a the generalized forum of this list.
I send the message out, rather infrequently actually, specifically to
threads that are exclusively questions about RoR.
If a thread has a more general topic, I don't send out the suggestion.
I'm sorry you get tired of reading it. I get really tired of RoR
questions. And, historically, before a few of us started doing this,
the RoR infestation on this list was really bad. Today it's quite low.
If my infrequent messages to the list do continue to bother you, please
consider adding me to your killfile.
--Steve