On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:35:09 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
dons@cse.unsw.edu.au (Donald Bruce Stewart) writes:
As we sit here riding the Haskell wave:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/tmp/cafe.png
with nearly 2000 (!) people reading haskell-cafe@, perhaps its time to think some more about how to build and maintain this lovely Haskell community we have.
Yes, the sheer volume of posts is definitely becoming a problem (for me, at least). All your suggestions for keeping the community polite and helpful are good. But I wonder if there are also any useful technical tips for users like myself, who would like to be able to keep up, but feel they are gradually drowning?
One obvious solution is to split the list into several, more specialised lists. It's far from obvious, at least to me, how to do that with this list though. Personally I try to read the first post in every conversation thread. If it doesn't grab be then I delete the whole thread. Not an ideal strategy, but it helps me keeping my day job ;-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org Jabber: magnus.therning@gmail.com http://therning.org/magnus