On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:20:51 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[...] > >The naming trend seems to be as follows: > >For beginner lists, as opposed to announcement-related lists: > >Iif the name of the domain does not include the language-name, then >the list name is > ><language-name>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For example, in the case of OCaml (see the aforementioned >"ocaml_beginners : Ocaml Beginners" at >http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners/#ans), it is > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >However, if the name of the domain includes the language-name, then >the language-name is truncated from the list name, as follows: > >tutor@<language-name>.org > >For example, in the case of Python (see the aforementioned "Tutor Info >Page" at http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor), it is > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Since the overall response seems to be to prefer "beginners" for the >list-name here, logic would seem to dictate that the optimal choice >would be > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is just a minor point, but I have been rereading through the posts in this thread, and saw again a post by Paul Hudak mentioning "haskell-beginners" as a possibility (04:38 on 2008/07/09); viz.: > Using Simon's names, I think that there is a greater need for > haskell-beginners than for haskell-edu. Despite the friendly people on > haskell-cafe, it is very intimidating, and very busy (sadly, I've mostly > stopped reading it for the latter reason). I don't think that > haskell-cafe serves well at all as a forum for beginners, whereas it > might serve just fine as a forum for instructors. Then I looked through the list of mailing list names at haskell.org (see "haskell.org Mailing Lists" at http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo), and discovered that there seems to be a kind of pattern where names that do not begin with "haskell" seem to be devoted to specific compilers/tools/packages/etc. not concerning general Haskell, whereas names that do seem to be devoted to general Haskell issues. In keeping with this trend, it might be a good idea to have "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" after all, in line with "[email protected]" and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", to differentiate the new general Haskell beginners list from more specialized lists such as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The only exception that I can find to this trend on that page is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which stalled a few months after launch, and specialized in the Wikibook anyway. So perhaps "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is not such a bad idea after all.... Any comments? -- Benjamin L. Russell _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
