Well, if somebody can't spell "beginners" correctly, I highly doubt they will get "alpha" right... Certainly if they drive an Alfa Romeo car ;) Even so, another alternative would just be "begin@haskell.com"...
-----Original Message----- From: haskell-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin L.Russell Sent: maandag 14 juli 2008 13:18 To: haskell@haskell.org Subject: [Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:04:04 +0100, Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com> wrote:
Best suggestions I've seen so far:
beginners@haskell.org (I like the plural better too, thanks Dan) help@haskell.org questions@haskell.org
let me know your preference (privately, unless you have anything else to add to the discussion).
Thank you, Simon.
Personally, I think that there are problems with all three names, though:
beginners@haskell.org: Although this name definitely captures the flavor of the mailing list and also conveys a sense of community (with the addition of the 's,' thanks to Dan Licata), the double-n is easy to mistake for beginners, and a new user would probably have difficulty remembering whether the name was "beginner" or "beginners" if a sudden question arose after six months of absence from the mailing list.
help@haskell.org: As Angelos Sphyris pointed out in a private e-mail message (which I later forwarded to this mailing list), this seems to suggest a general help archive/source complete with manuals, faqs, examples etc. More importantly, it does not suggest a sense of community.
questions@haskell.org: This name limits the scope of the list to questions, as opposed to general beginner topics, and does not seem appropriate for non-question beginner-related issues. Also, this name does not convey a sense of community.
Since this new list is about beginner issues for Haskell, a functional programming language, ideally, the name should simultaneously be short, easy to remember, academic, suggest general beginner issues, and, if possible, suggest a sense of community. The best alternatives that I have come up with are the following:
alpha@haskell.org: This name denotes a Greek letter used in mathematics, is associated with a beginning, is academic, but does not really suggest a sense of community.
lambda-alpha@haskell.org: This name denotes two Greek letters used in mathematics, ordered so as to denote a beginning of the lambda-calculus, and is academic, but does not really suggest a sense of community.
haskell-alpha@haskell.org: This name denotes a Greek letter used in mathematics, is associated with a beginning, is academic, and suggests a sense of community.
haskell-lambda-alpha@haskell.org: This name is simply too long to remember.
In sum, I suggest haskell-alpha@haskell.org. Any better alternatives?
-- Benjamin L. Russell
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