[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] PROPOSAL: Rename haskell@ to haskell-announce@

2007-09-24 Thread Claus Reinke
[cc-ed to haskell@, as this discussion is about [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are four things sent to the haskell list@ 1) Calls for papers 2) Annoucements 3) Oleg's stuff (which are really announcements of a library or technique) 4) Off topic stuff I'm initially only proposing to mop up category 4,

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] PROPOSAL: Rename haskell@ to haskell-announce@

2007-09-24 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:00:40PM +0100, Claus Reinke wrote: > > in other words, people were meant to subscribe either > to haskell or to haskell+haskell-cafe, and posting to > haskell was meant to be a flag able to raise a topic > briefly over the general din in haskell-cafe. Do people think t

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] PROPOSAL: Rename haskell@ to haskell-announce@

2007-09-24 Thread Claus Reinke
in other words, people were meant to subscribe either to haskell or to haskell+haskell-cafe, and posting to haskell was meant to be a flag able to raise a topic briefly over the general din in haskell-cafe. Do people think that is working? i don't think it is working anymore. haskell-cafe w

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] PROPOSAL: Rename haskell@ to haskell-announce@

2007-09-24 Thread apfelmus
Johannes Waldmann wrote: Forgive me, but I would much prefer a newsgroup to a mailing list. So do I, that's why I'm reading and posting through gmane :) You still have to be subscribed (to haskell@ but not haskell-cafe@) in order to post but there is a mailman option to not send you e-mail (s

Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] PROPOSAL: Rename haskell@ to haskell-announce@

2007-09-24 Thread Johannes Waldmann
Forgive me, but I would much prefer a newsgroup to a mailing list. True, I could unsubscribe now and just browse the mailman archives - but for posting, I'd have to temporarily re-subscribe, which is awkward. (Indeed that's the only reason I'm not doing it.) We already have comp.lang.haskell. - B

Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] PROPOSAL: Rename haskell@ to haskell-announce@

2007-09-24 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi > Forgive me, but I would much prefer a newsgroup to a mailing list. > > True, I could unsubscribe now and just browse the mailman archives - > but for posting, I'd have to temporarily re-subscribe, which is awkward. > (Indeed that's the only reason I'm not doing it.) I believe you can post fr

Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] PROPOSAL: Rename haskell@ to haskell-announce@

2007-09-24 Thread Isaac Dupree
Claus Reinke wrote: so everything that would be of interest to all haskellers, including those too busy to follow haskell-cafe, would go to haskell, everything else would go to haskell-cafe. but even those topics starting out on haskell are meant to migrate to haskell-cafe after a few posts at

Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] PROPOSAL: Rename haskell@ to haskell-announce@

2007-09-25 Thread Barney Hilken
From: Isaac Dupree I haven't been able to see how it makes sense to subscribe to haskell@ but not haskell-cafe -- because if a discussion interested you, and went in-depth, you might want to be able to read the whole thread! (It is possible to read the archives, but that doesn't help i