Hi I've just replied to another first poster with "wrong list". Its entirely not their fault, but its also probably a bit off-putting that your very first post gets a (very polite) "you got it wrong" message.
To steal the reasons and explanations from Ian: --------------------- pretty much what would be haskell-announce@ anywhere else, and haskell-cafe@ what would be haskell@ elsewhere. A haskell-cafe@ list elsewhere would probably be where the haskell@ people discuss things which aren't actually related to Haskell (like e.g. the demon.local newsgroup). I think the number of posts in the wrong place would be lower if these were more conventionally named (although there aren't a lot of them anyway). I think it would make sense to: * Rename haskell@ to haskell-announce@, and redirect mails from haskell@ to haskell-announce@ for some period. (more, but can be done step by step in the future) --------------------- I suggest that following somewhat the http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions we allow 4 weeks for discussion, and depending on the result we then move the mailing list. Bug to track: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1732 Deadline: 23 October 2007 Thanks Neil _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe