Re: Why not Ruby?

Tim Greer wrote:
Don Geddis wrote:

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on Thu, 01 Jan 2009:
Tim Greer <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
That poster has a frequent habit of cross posting to multiple,
irrelevant
news groups. There's no rhyme or reason to it.
No rhyme nor reason? It's quite clear, to me, why. How is a
comparison article not relevant when he is trying to stimulate
discussion about alternative languages for modern development?
Sometimes crossposting can be useful. But you ought to at least be
aware of some of the possible drawbacks, e.g. expressed here:
http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PFAQ/cross-posting.html

In particular, the usual hope by the poster is that the content is
relevant to the union of people in the different groups, but the
actual experience is that it is often relevant only to the
intersection of such people.

And, moreover, that a long cross-posted thread on controversial topics
often winds up with people talking at cross-purposes past each other,
because they don't share enough common values to have a useful
conversation.

In particular, the poster that started this thread is well known for
adding far more noise than signal to any discussion, and for showing
no interest in the greater good of any of the communities, but only in
his own glorification.

You labor under the delusion that there is at least good intent here,
and the
poster ought to receive the benefit of the doubt. Long prior
experience shows that this hope is misplaced.

-- Don

Thank you, Don, for outlining the issue far more eloquently than I was
able to. Also, to be clear, I don't think anyone's upset that people
find his posts interesting, but it doesn't make it so for everyone else
(or assign them any ailment if they don't see it that way) --
especially in regard to the other groups he cross posts to

Well said, but why said? Answer: because we all enjoy posting to Usenet whether it is OT or not.

I am more impressed by the people who have the capacity to ignore material they find uninteresting. Hint.

(of which
one should have specifically been the ruby group, but I digress.)

We have learned the hard way about infestations from that camp, maybe Xah was doing us all a favor.

kt
.

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