# Goodbye "Goodbye Ruby" **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 18, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/goodbye-goodbye-ruby/165859 "2009-04-18T17:05:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rjsquire)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/goodbye-goodbye-ruby/165859/1 "2009-04-18T17:05:37Z")
Will someone please kill off this puerile, off-topic thread? I woke up to 17 ruby-talk messages, 30% devoted to this topic. This amounts to spam. Bob Schaaf ---
**Author:** ![rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rjsquire)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/goodbye-goodbye-ruby/165859/2 "2009-04-18T17:12:38Z")
2009/4/18 Robert S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > Will someone please kill off this puerile, off-topic thread? > > I woke up to 17 ruby-talk messages, 30% devoted to this topic. This amounts > to spam. > > Bob Schaaf But about the flowers, dude? ## /\* should’ve been muted a while ago \*/ John M. 07739 171 531 MSc (DIC) Timezone: GMT ---
**Author:** ![rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rjsquire)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/goodbye-goodbye-ruby/165859/3 "2009-04-18T17:15:00Z")
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Robert S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Will someone please kill off this puerile, off-topic thread? > > I woke up to 17 ruby-talk messages, 30% devoted to this topic. This amounts > to spam. > > Bob Schaaf We are an open community… And BTW 90% of the threads here do not interest me, well now that you mention it, that is terrible, that is worse than spam, can someone please kill them! Thank you in advance Robert – Si tu veux construire un bateau … Ne rassemble pas des hommes pour aller chercher du bois, préparer des outils, répartir les tâches, alléger le travail… mais enseigne aux gens la nostalgie de l’infini de la mer. If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ---
**Author:** ![rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rjsquire)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/goodbye-goodbye-ruby/165859/4 "2009-04-18T18:12:29Z")
> I woke up to 17 ruby-talk messages, 30% devoted to this topic. This > amounts > to spam. Ruby’s environmental footprint is off topic?? You seal-clubber, you!! ---
**Author:** ![rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rjsquire)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/goodbye-goodbye-ruby/165859/5 "2009-04-18T20:30:42Z")
Todd B. wrote: > I enjoy side-band conversations, but if a person doesn’t, it doesn’t > take Samson to avoid the thread. Religious allegory, yep, one should > ban this mail as well. Topicality has a purpose - to cultivate a crew of regular responders who can provide and review the best answers. Topicality is /not/ about helping said regulars wake up in the morning with no feeling of dread that the forum will still be discussing some marginal topic. Deceased equine flagellation also helps cultivate a crew of regulars… ---
**Author:** ![rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rjsquire)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/goodbye-goodbye-ruby/165859/6 "2009-04-18T18:21:51Z")
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Robert S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Will someone please kill off this puerile, off-topic thread? > > I woke up to 17 ruby-talk messages, 30% devoted to this topic. This amounts > to spam. A decent mail reader limits the spam interaction. (which is a polite way to say “fold it and get over it”). I enjoy side-band conversations, but if a person doesn’t, it doesn’t take Samson to avoid the thread. Religious allegory, yep, one should ban this mail as well. Todd ---
**Author:** ![rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rjsquire)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/goodbye-goodbye-ruby/165859/7 "2009-04-18T21:39:24Z")
Robert S. wrote: > Will someone please kill off this puerile, off-topic thread? > > I woke up to 17 ruby-talk messages, 30% devoted to this topic. This > amounts to spam. Gmail has a ‘mute’ option, if that’s any help 🙂 -=r ---
**Author:** ![rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@rjsquire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rjsquire)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/goodbye-goodbye-ruby/165859/8 "2009-04-18T23:37:59Z")
Robert S. wrote: > Will someone please kill off this puerile, off-topic thread? > > I woke up to 17 ruby-talk messages, 30% devoted to this topic. This > amounts to spam. > > Bob Schaaf Robert: 1. Learn to operate your email client. 2. Thread your emails. 3. Ignore threads of no interest to you (which you’re already doing, if you think about it a bit). 4. Allow others to talk about what they wish. It’s none of your concern. t. – ```auto Tom C., MS MA, LMHC - Private practice Psychotherapist Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226 << removed_email_address@domain.invalid >> (email) << TomCloyd.com >> (website) << sleightmind.wordpress.com >> (mental health weblog) ```