# RE: Re: Re: PROPOSAL: The list needs to fork (desperately) **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 16, 2005, 8:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-re-re-proposal-the-list-needs-to-fork-desperately/50436 "2005-12-16T08:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 8:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-re-re-proposal-the-list-needs-to-fork-desperately/50436/1 "2005-12-16T08:39:38Z")
What is wrong with forking the list? Many other projects have forked lists so what is the reason it cannot be done for this list? Opening your mail client to see that more than 300 mails have arrived within the last 16 hours is ridiculous. Unless you have nothing else to do… /Torben ---
**Author:** ![SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 9:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-re-re-proposal-the-list-needs-to-fork-desperately/50436/2 "2005-12-16T09:09:42Z")
On Dec 16, 2005, at 16:36 , Torben Wölm wrote: > What is wrong with forking the list? Many other projects have > forked lists so what is the reason it cannot be done for this list? Also, there is nothing preventing people from subscribing to more than one list: novices who need help getting started and want to follow what non-beginners are discussing can subscribe to two (or three) lists, as can non-beginners who want to help out those just starting out. It’s only limiting or splitting the community if you want to see it that way. Another way to look at it is focussing resources to where they’re best applied. I think a well-maintained faq is also very helpful (along online docs) for referencing people to, uh, frequently answered questions. Michael G. grzm myrealbox com ---
**Author:** ![SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 9:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-re-re-proposal-the-list-needs-to-fork-desperately/50436/3 "2005-12-16T09:15:43Z")
Hi, what do you think of adding this list to gmane ? It helps a lot for the searches. Thibaut ---
**Author:** ![SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 10:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-re-re-proposal-the-list-needs-to-fork-desperately/50436/4 "2005-12-16T10:43:11Z")
I had search before but could not find it… Which lead me to the false conclusion it was not there. Thanks! Thibaut ---
**Author:** ![SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 9:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-re-re-proposal-the-list-needs-to-fork-desperately/50436/5 "2005-12-16T09:43:02Z")
Hi, Thibaut, just for your bookmarks: [http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails](http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails) as well as [http://www.ruby-forum.com](http://www.ruby-forum.com) Regards Jan ---
**Author:** ![SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSiso-8859-1SQSTor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-re-re-proposal-the-list-needs-to-fork-desperately/50436/6 "2005-12-16T13:20:08Z")
Splitting the list based on user “types” would be a bad idea, IMHO. Instead, I’d suggest splitting based on topic, for instance: into rails-support and rails-discussion Regards, Tomas J.