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 versa. John On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 06:38:33PM -0700, Ashley Yakeley wrote:

At 2002-05-10 10:38, C.Reinke wrote:

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existing split, this ought to be split off the haskell list (i.e., everyone subscribed to haskell would initially be subscribed to haskell and to haskell-announce).

Opinions? Suggestions?

I suggest that all posts to haskell-announce are copied to haskell. Perhaps even the haskell list should itself be subscribed to haskell-announce. And of course then initially no-one should be subscribed to haskell-announce. Furthermore haskell-announce should be moderated, so all posts to it are screened before distribution.

This seems to be the standard way of doing things for announce/discussion list pairs. This way people only need to be subscribed to one of them, and there's no chance of missing announcements just because you're only subscribed to one list.

-- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA

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