Re: dmd beta mailing list

[Walter Bright]

grauzone wrote:
Why are you creating these as mailing lists and not as 
news.digitalmars.com groups?


Because I expect it to be very low traffic, and I wouldn't expect people 
to constantly have to check the n.g. to see if the beta is available. It 
also gives feedback on who actually cares about the beta.

Re: dmd beta mailing list

[BCS]

Hello Walter,


grauzone wrote:


Why are you creating these as mailing lists and not as
news.digitalmars.com groups?


Because I expect it to be very low traffic, and I wouldn't expect
people to constantly have to check the n.g. to see if the beta is
available. 


A decent NG client will do that for them and then pop up a notification window.


It also gives feedback on who actually cares about the
beta.



OTOH that's a valid point, up to a point. What about lurkers?

Re: dmd beta mailing list

[grauzone]

Walter Bright wrote:

Walter Bright wrote:

grauzone wrote:
Why are you creating these as mailing lists and not as 
news.digitalmars.com groups?


Because I expect it to be very low traffic, and I wouldn't expect 
people to constantly have to check the n.g. to see if the beta is 
available. It also gives feedback on who actually cares about the beta.


There's also the fact that there's a very small barrier to subscribing 
to a mailing list - only people who are particularly interested in it 
will bother. I've seen the mailing list approach used elsewhere because 
of this, and it works well.


Why would you put up a barrier for beta-testing?

The concurrency mailing list I can understand (that's Andrei's thing).