Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: filestore 0.1

On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 23:09 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Derek Elkins wrote:

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On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 09:32 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:

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Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

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Hello Gwern,

Sunday, January 25, 2009, 2:56:07 AM, you wrote:

my usual complaint: it will be great to see all announces duplicated in main haskell list

I always only announce things on haskell-cafe. What list is the "main haskell list"?

This is the description of the Haskell mailing list: "haskell@haskell.org (read & search via gmane) Announcements, discussion openers, technical questions. haskell@haskell.org is intended to be a low-bandwidth list, to which it is safe to subscribe without risking being buried in email. If a thread becomes longer than a handful of messages, please transfer to haskell-cafe@haskell.org."

All announcements should go to haskell@haskell.org if nowhere else. In practice, it is probably best to post to both haskell and haskell-cafe and this is what most people do.

Hmm, interesting, I've never bothered subscribing to that list. I assumed it was a moderated announcement list that I wouldn't be able to post to myself, i.e. it would be a one-way list only. My assumption was most likely based on my experience with Debian announcement lists.

I have a hard time seeing a point in having that list:

- there should be no discussions on the list, and - people suggest that announcements be X-posted to haskell-cafe.

Hmm, so what is posted to haskell@haskell.org that a subscriber to haskell-cafe would be inerested in?

Some announcements, discussion openers, technical questions may not be posted to haskell-cafe@haskell.org. However, the idea (now at least) is that if you are subscribed to haskell-cafe@haskell.org, you should (may as well) be subscribed to haskell@haskell.org. However, if you don't want tbe drink from the firehose that is haskell-cafe@haskell.org you can still keep track of announcements and such in haskell@haskell.org.