From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA08421 for caml-red; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:21:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA30068 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 05:08:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e5F38Mf10047 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 05:08:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (sansho.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.90]) by kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7W) with ESMTP id MAA27078; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:08:00 +0900 (JST) To: mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Newsgroup for Caml? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jun 2000 01:18:44 +0200" <20000614011843.B11991@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> References: <20000614011843.B11991@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on Emacs 20.5 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20000615120749F.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:07:49 +0900 From: Jacques Garrigue X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Sender: weis From: Markus Mottl > I wouldn't mind using a newsgroup. However, there is already one called > "comp.lang.ml", which has very low traffic: seems that people who are > interested in OCaml (= not SML) have all signed up to the mailing list... :) > > Instead of creating a new one, the more imperialistically minded among us > might choose to seize power over there... Well, the problem is that comp.lang.ml is a moderated newsgroup, and that it is directly tied to the SML mailing list. I see no point in changing that. If Pierre is for a newsgroup, it is probably because the flow on the caml-list is becoming very time-consuming to moderate. So it would probably be nice to have a non-moderated comp.lang.caml. Also I'm not sure that people who don't like newsgroups would really enjoy reading such a non-moderated caml-list, with the flame-wars and spam one can expect. What about keeping a moderated caml-list mainly for announcements, the newsgroup being there for questions and discussions? I know it's always hard to distinguish, but for me news and mailing lists are complementary, and I would prefer to have mailing lists directly pour in my inbox, rather than have to discriminate them to avoid overflow. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jacques Garrigue Kyoto University garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp JG