yeah, I really like this because oftentimes an announcment will incite a discussion, this way people can reply to the announcement on the haskell list if they want to discuss it and the people who dont care about anouncements can just stay on the announce list.
I Would also be moderately in favor of merging the haskell and haskell-cafe lists back into one, mainly because I always felt the distinction was somewhat arbitrary, who knows what discussions will turn out to be too long or have interesting tangents until it is too late and everyone has said everything on haskell? but this is a different issue. I wonder how many addresses are on haskell and not haskell-cafe or vice
There are about 850 people on the haskell list, and about 700 people on haskell-café, and I'm sure that most of the haskell-café members are also haskell members. I'm happy to set up and moderate haskell-announce@haskell.org if there's a general consensus that this would be a useful thing. As to whether we should merge haskell and haskell-café - personally I wasn't in favour of the split at the time, but I recall that support was roughly 50/50 in favour. Unless there's an overwhelming majority in favour of a merge I suggest we leave things as they are. Please don't mail the list with "I vote for haskell-announce"-type messages, and direct follow-up discussion to haskell-cafe@haskell.org (Reply-to: is set, I hope). Cheers, Simon (with haskell-admin@haskell.org hat on)