> I would like to add a vote for reorganization into two lists
> one of which
> is a proper subset of the other. I stopped reading Usenet a
> long time ago
> when the spam got too intolerable.
In my experience, this sort of thing doesn't work too well in practice.
People tend to cross-post, or always post to the most general list, when
they aren't sure exactly which list they should be posting to. Here's my
proposal:
- haskell-announce (v. low volume)
- haskell-chat (high volume, anything vaguely related to
Haskell is acceptable)
- haskell-questions (questions about the use of the language,
maybe haskell-help or haskell-users)
- haskell-2 (discussions related to changes/extensions to
the language)
- haskell (general discussion list, anything not covered above)
I don't think we need to have a more restrictive charter fot the haskell
list itself - just the presence of the other lists will take some of the
load off straight away. Besides, 30 messages a day isn't a great deal,
especially if you use a decent threaded mail reader (I recommend
emacs+Gnus+procmail, but there are lots of others).
Cheers,
Simon
