On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:20:51 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell <DekuDekuplex@Yahoo.com> wrote:
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The naming trend seems to be as follows:
For beginner lists, as opposed to announcement-related lists:
Iif the name of the domain does not include the language-name, then the list name is
<language-name>_beginners@domain-name
For example, in the case of OCaml (see the aforementioned "ocaml_beginners : Ocaml Beginners" at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners/#ans), it is
ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com
However, if the name of the domain includes the language-name, then the language-name is truncated from the list name, as follows:
tutor@<language-name>.org
For example, in the case of Python (see the aforementioned "Tutor Info Page" at http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor), it is
tutor@python.org
Since the overall response seems to be to prefer "beginners" for the list-name here, logic would seem to dictate that the optimal choice would be
beginners@haskell.org
This is just a minor point, but I have been rereading through the posts in this thread, and saw again a post by Paul Hudak mentioning "haskell-beginners" as a possibility (04:38 on 2008/07/09); viz.:
Using Simon's names, I think that there is a greater need for haskell-beginners than for haskell-edu. Despite the friendly people on haskell-cafe, it is very intimidating, and very busy (sadly, I've mostly stopped reading it for the latter reason). I don't think that haskell-cafe serves well at all as a forum for beginners, whereas it might serve just fine as a forum for instructors.
Then I looked through the list of mailing list names at haskell.org (see "haskell.org Mailing Lists" at http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo), and discovered that there seems to be a kind of pattern where names that do not begin with "haskell" seem to be devoted to specific compilers/tools/packages/etc. not concerning general Haskell, whereas names that do seem to be devoted to general Haskell issues. In keeping with this trend, it might be a good idea to have "haskell-beginners@haskell.org" after all, in line with "haskell@haskell.org" and "haskell-cafe@haskell.org", to differentiate the new general Haskell beginners list from more specialized lists such as "blogs@haskell.org", "ffi@haskell.org", "hat@haskell.org", and "helium@haskell.org". The only exception that I can find to this trend on that page is "wikibook@haskell.org", which stalled a few months after launch, and specialized in the Wikibook anyway. So perhaps "haskell-beginners@haskell.org" is not such a bad idea after all.... Any comments? -- Benjamin L. Russell