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 that is working? Like I think I said in an earlier mail, apart form the announcements and CFPs etc, I couldn't see anything that distinguished those messages sent to haskell@ from most of the -cafe traffic. Also, I think HWN now does a good job of bringing the current issues to the haskell@ readers.
(note that the second is slightly misleading: *everything* is off-topic on haskell@ after a few exchanges, i think; note also that crossposting was explicitly ruled out)
I don't think cross-posting works well on the lists at all; unless people do some magic they get 2 copies of all the mails, and you can end up with some subthreads only on one list and some only on another.
however, it has become a problem, and i don't know whether everyone on haskell-cafe is really subscribed to haskell as well anymore.
I think it's reasonable to assume that people subscribing to a list called foo-cafe will also subscribe to lists called foo or foo-announce. And if for some reason someone did choose not to, they won't want to be CCed with things sent to those lists.
and busy haskellers can see on haskell@ whenever there is a thread on haskell-cafe that they might want to read/join.
Which they would do by polling the web archives or something?
does this sound workable?
It sounds bizarre to me. Thanks Ian