Ralf Muschall writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > set up comp.lang.haskell?
> > I agree with the above.
>
> This is IMHO the best solution for a lot of reasons:
I disagree. One major reason is the spam problem: a post to a
newsgroup essentially guarantees putting your name on a spam mailing
list, and receiving large quantities of Make Money Fast postings.
> 2. The decision problem (high volume list without the important
> people or having to hesitate before every article) goes away.
Many "important people" have a policy of no longer reading Usenet.
> 3. There is no human work needed to maintain a group once it exists.
This is just as true for a mailing list as for a newsgroup.
Also, news is not distributed everywhere, and even if news is
available there's no guarantee everyone will be able to convince their
sysadmin to accept the new group c.l.h. Email is surely available
everywhere.
> Technical question: Are there people *writing* to this list without
> being subscribed? I very often see other people answering with
> header lines like
> "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> The first of these addresses would be redundant if there were no such
> participants.
It's polite to cc: the author. This ensures they get the message
first (before everyone else), and that it ends up in their inbox
rather than just in amongst 345 other messages in their Haskell
folder[1]. It's also easier in most mail clients to just click "reply
all"; "reply to author" doesn't send the message to the list also.
> Ralf
HTH.
--KW 8-)
[1] Actual count in my folder after two weeks away (!!).
