Am Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:07:36 +0100 schrieb "David House" <dmhouse@gmail.com>:
I happen to think this would be a good idea from a newbie's point of view. As a real Haskell newbie I must say that this is (IMHO) a very bad idea. It's annoying to register on yet another forum just to ask one question (and even more to regularly use it). With your e-mail client, its clear how to register, how to post, and how to quickly leave the list if you have enough of it. In the case of a forum, you have to learn from scratch (yeah, not as hard as understanding monads.. ;) ). Maybe it would be nice to have a "WebToList-Gateway": you can post your question with a form on some webpage and it gets delivered to the list. When someone answers to your question, the gateway app notifies you by email. _This_ would be comfortable for one-off questions :) Some also mentioned the benefits of having different topics (sub forums) in forums. But iirc, mailman does also supports topics per list?
Christian