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Date: | 2001-09-13 (15:24) |
From: | Markus Mottl <markus@m...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Newbie list |
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Alan Schmitt wrote: > We did this for the enlightenment lists, because some developers were > getting bothered with all the newbie questions [snip] Your experience seems to indicate that we should try out creating a specific list for newbies. It's probably to the better for all sides: newbies won't be afraid of joining this list and asking "stupid" questions (only unasked questions are stupid, IMHO), and more experienced developers won't get distracted while discussing more hard-core issues. On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Frank Atanassow wrote: > I might subscribe to the newbies list and answer questions myself. The > reason I want a separate newbie list is that I can unsubscribe from it > when I get busy without missing the other discussions and announcements. Though I guess that many people use mail clients with threading capabilities, it still seems better to have separate lists: this way one could automatically sort mails from both lists into different folders and thus prevent cluttering one's inbox (or caml-list inbox). When I don't have time to answer basic questions, I'd simply not look at the caml-newbie folder. It's difficult to resist, when all mails go to the same folder (I am not very disciplined ;) ... Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr