From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,75acdeaad9326407 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!w21g2000vby.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada group on identica Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 00:58:14 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4ad07589-1d1a-4c3f-8937-c0895ea96281@w21g2000vby.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.138.182.236 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1291885095 19454 127.0.0.1 (9 Dec 2010 08:58:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w21g2000vby.googlegroups.com; posting-host=137.138.182.236; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15861 Date: 2010-12-09T00:58:14-08:00 List-Id: On Dec 7, 8:53=A0pm, R Tyler Croy wrote: > I was bummed when I didn't find an Ada group on Identi.ca so I went ahead= and > created one: > =A0 =A0 > > For the uninitiated, Identi.ca is a microblogging service not too dissimi= lar > from Twitter, but far more heavily populated with hackers :) Considering a small size of the Ada community, creating too many groups, forums, fan pages and whatnot like this will inevitably lead to dispersing the effort. I'm not sure if the community can afford this. "Not too dissimilar from Twitter" begs the question: what is the added value of it? -- Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com