Re: Newsgroup for Caml?

From: Jacques Garrigue (garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 05:07:49 MET DST

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    From: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>

    > I wouldn't mind using a newsgroup. However, there is already one called
    > "comp.lang.ml", which has very low traffic: seems that people who are
    > interested in OCaml (= not SML) have all signed up to the mailing list... :)
    >
    > Instead of creating a new one, the more imperialistically minded among us
    > might choose to seize power over there...

    Well, the problem is that comp.lang.ml is a moderated newsgroup, and
    that it is directly tied to the SML mailing list. I see no point in
    changing that.

    If Pierre is for a newsgroup, it is probably because the flow on the
    caml-list is becoming very time-consuming to moderate. So it would
    probably be nice to have a non-moderated comp.lang.caml.

    Also I'm not sure that people who don't like newsgroups would really
    enjoy reading such a non-moderated caml-list, with the flame-wars and
    spam one can expect.

    What about keeping a moderated caml-list mainly for announcements, the
    newsgroup being there for questions and discussions?

    I know it's always hard to distinguish, but for me news and mailing
    lists are complementary, and I would prefer to have mailing lists
    directly pour in my inbox, rather than have to discriminate them to
    avoid overflow.

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