[Rails] Re: PROPOSAL: The list needs to fork (desperately).

[Bruce Balmer]

My two cents worth.

I was having trouble with keeping up with the list until I switched  
threads on in my mail client (mail.app os x). After that I have found  
it no trouble, just like the gentleman below.

I'd do that first before making further judgments on the list.  See  
what you think.

bruce

PS. I hope I have aggravated only the unreasonable and that I have  
seemed sane to the wise.


On 11-Dec-05, at 2:19 PM, Elf M. Sternberg wrote:

> Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I hardly think that this list is getting "swamped"
>
>         I think the problem is with the user's client.  I had a  
> terrible
> time following this group using it as a mailing list.  There *is* too
> much traffic if you're trying to follow it message-by-message,
> concept-by-concept.
>
>         On the other hand, if you're used to a forum-based interface,
> using the gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails NNTP interface makes reading this
> as a newsgroup easy.  I use gnus, the emacs client, and *that* makes
> this list look the way it should: like many conversations in dialogue,
> not all of which I have to pay any attention to whatsoever.
>
>                 Elf
>
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