Re: none

[Christian Neukirchen]

hal...@hypermetrics.com writes:

> RUBY NEWSGROUP FAQ -- Welcome to comp.lang.ruby! (Revised 2005-4-14)
>
> This FAQ contains information for those who want to:
>
> 1) learn more about Ruby, and want to
> 2) post to comp.lang.ruby or to the ruby-lang mail list, or want to
> 3) provide anonymous feedback to help us improve Ruby.

You really should add a Subject:, else the updated FAQ is fine.

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Christian Neukirchen <chneuk...@gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org

[Hal Fulton]

Christian Neukirchen wrote:
> hal...@hypermetrics.com writes:
>
>
>>RUBY NEWSGROUP FAQ -- Welcome to comp.lang.ruby! (Revised 2005-4-14)
>>
>>This FAQ contains information for those who want to:
>>
>> 1) learn more about Ruby, and want to
>> 2) post to comp.lang.ruby or to the ruby-lang mail list, or want to
>> 3) provide anonymous feedback to help us improve Ruby.
>
>
> You really should add a Subject:, else the updated FAQ is fine.

It's posted automatically. I've never seen it omit the
subject before.

I'm investigating what went wrong.

Thanks,
Hal

[Bill Guindon]

"Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be
attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before
and it has always been due to human error."

>
> Thanks,
> Hal
>
>

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Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)

[Emiel van de Laar]

* hal...@hypermetrics.com (hal...@hypermetrics.com) wrote:
> RUBY NEWSGROUP FAQ -- Welcome to comp.lang.ruby! (Revised 2005-4-14)
>
> This FAQ contains information for those who want to:
>
> 1) learn more about Ruby, and want to
> 2) post to comp.lang.ruby or to the ruby-lang mail list, or want to
> 3) provide anonymous feedback to help us improve Ruby.

[snip]

> 2.5 What are these 6-digit message numbers?
>
> Historically, every item on the mailing list had a subject
> starting with a string like: [ruby-talk:99999]
>
> The message numbers were convenient since they were strictly
> serial and formed a good way to refer to a past message. But
> they interfered with threading; Matz removed them after the
> matter was put to a vote in early 2002.
>
> The news header still refers to this number, should anyone
> wish to retrieve it. On the mailing list this number can
> now be found in the X-Mail-Count: header.
>
> You can point to a specific message by appending it onto the
> ruby-talk.com URL; i.e. http://ruby-talk.com/12345 will refer
> to message 12345. (NOTE: The above was true, but is not
> currently working.)

I know that this feature no longer works but was it at ruby-talk.com
or ruby-talk.org? What happened to ruby-talk.com? Should we just
mention ruby-talk.org here? Just a heads up.

Cheers,

Emiel
--
Emiel van de Laar

[Hal Fulton]

Emiel van de Laar wrote:
>>
>> You can point to a specific message by appending it onto the
>> ruby-talk.com URL; i.e. http://ruby-talk.com/12345 will refer
>> to message 12345. (NOTE: The above was true, but is not
>> currently working.)
>
>
> I know that this feature no longer works but was it at ruby-talk.com
> or ruby-talk.org? What happened to ruby-talk.com? Should we just
> mention ruby-talk.org here? Just a heads up.
>

I hadn't noticed that. I think these were more or less synonyms,
but the .com variant(s) is/are gone now.

Thanks,
Hal