[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: #haskell-in-depth IRC channel

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:35:03 +0000, Dougal Stanton wrote:

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Benjamin L. Russell wrote:

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If neither #haskell nor #haskell-in-depth is appropriate, perhaps they would feel more comfortable in a Haskell-beginners-specific channel?

The danger with that is the only people who go there are beginners looking for advice. Without advisers also, it would quickly wither.

How has the beginners' mailing list worked out, in this regard? At least with a ML it's possible to set aside some part of the day to answering questions... the same is not really possible for 5-hour-old conversations on IRC.

It seems to have been working out quite well. Last month, there were a total of 57 threads, including 192 messages in Haskell-Beginners. Most questions get responses within a few minutes. You can see the archives for last month at http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/beginners/2009-January/thread.html . -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^