"Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj@microsoft.com> writes:
Can anyone remember when the Haskell mailing list first opened? Does anyone have an archive that goes right back to the beginning?
In my news archives (which start 9 Feb 92, shortly after we got an internet connection back there :-) I found the Haskell 1.2 announcement, which refers to a mailing list: | From: peterson-john@CS.YALE.EDU (john peterson) | Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 18:27:21 GMT | Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional | Subject: Haskell Report version 1.2 and tutorial now available | | [...] | | A mailing list for general discussions about Haskell is reachable in | one of two ways: | | haskell@cs.yale.edu or haskell@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk | | To be added to the above mailing list, send mail to either | haskell-request@cs.yale.edu or haskell-request@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk, | whichever is the nearer site to you. Please do not post | administrative requests direct to the mailing list. To inquire about | implementation status, send mail to one of the addresses mentioned in | the preface of the report. (One of the next messages: | From: partain@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Will Partain) | Date: 30 Mar 92 08:46:57 GMT | Newsgroups: mail.haskell,comp.lang.functional | Subject: glorious Glasgow Haskell compiler, 0.06, PATCH 1 ;-) Wolfram