On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 23:09 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Derek Elkins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 09:32 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > >> > Hello Gwern, > >> > > >> > Sunday, January 25, 2009, 2:56:07 AM, you wrote: > >> > > >> > my usual complaint: it will be great to see all announces duplicated > >> > in main haskell list > >> > >> I always only announce things on haskell-cafe. What list is the "main > >> haskell list"? > > > > This is the description of the Haskell mailing list: > > "[email protected] (read & search via gmane) > > Announcements, discussion openers, technical questions. > > [email protected] is intended to be a low-bandwidth list, to > > which it is safe to subscribe without risking being buried in > > email. If a thread becomes longer than a handful of messages, > > please transfer to [email protected]." > > > > All announcements should go to [email protected] if nowhere else. In > > practice, it is probably best to post to both haskell and haskell-cafe > > and this is what most people do. > > Hmm, interesting, I've never bothered subscribing to that list. I > assumed it was a moderated announcement list that I wouldn't be able > to post to myself, i.e. it would be a one-way list only. My > assumption was most likely based on my experience with Debian > announcement lists. > > I have a hard time seeing a point in having that list:
I think the point is in subscribing to [email protected], but *not* to haskell-cafe. Or filtering haskell-cafe and reading it less regularly, but reading all of haskell. Or other things along the same lines. jcc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
