Daniel Fischer
I have long been subscribed to -cafe but not to haskell@. Regarding why, I wasn't interested in what haskell@ was supposed to be for, while I was interested in what -cafe is for.
The Wiki documents these lists as: haskell@haskell.org 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. haskell-cafe@haskell.org (archives) General Haskell questions; extended discussions. In Simon Peyton Jones' words: "forum in which it's acceptable to ask anything, no matter how naive, and get polite replies." I'm not sure I understand your sentiment - if you wish to avoid announcements or the initial bits of discussions, surely you would be in favor of not cross-posting them? A quick (and probably highly inaccurate) count in my inbox tells me that a little over 700 of about 1200 mails to haskell@ were crossposted to -cafe, and the latter has received 21000 messages in the same time frame. Could we not accept the 2.5% increase in traffic that the remaining 500 messages would mean, and get rid of the cross-postings? -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants