Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:48:06PM +0100, Andrzej Jaworski wrote:
Responding to Simon Peyton-Jones' reminder that this is a low-bandwidth list I
was obscure and commited a blunder.
This one and many other threads here are started undoubtedly by experts [sorry
guys:-)] and coffee brake should work for them, but on numerous occasions
threads here spawn beginner type questions. So, my thinking was that it is
perhaps against the tide trying to stop them.
Why not to make the list Haskell a first contact general practitioner? Then
creating e.g. "Announcements & Challenge" or "Announcements & ask guru" list
could take the best from "Haskell" but also would make it less front line and
thus more elitist, which should imply the manner by itself.
I proposed renaming
haskell@ -> haskell-announce@
haskell-cafe@ -> haskell@
in http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-July/028719.html
I suggested the same thing at the time we created haskell-cafe, but the
concensus was in favour of haskell-cafe. At the time I didn't think it
would work - for a long time, the number of subscribers to both lists was
almost the same - but now I have to admit I think haskell-cafe is a big win
for the community. The -cafe extension gives people the confidence to post
any old chatter without fear of being off-topic, and I'm sure this has
helped the community to grow.
Those of us who grew up with Usenet (RIP) are more at home with the
foo/foo-announce split, and it's certainly quite conventional for
mailing-list naming too, but on the whole I don't think doing things
differently has really done us any harm and it may well have been a stroke
of genius :-)
Cheers,
Simon
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