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 NAA05515 for caml-red; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:20:39 +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 LAA10103 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:21:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mrwall.kal.com (mrwall.kal.com [194.193.14.236]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id e5F9LKL19323; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:21:20 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mrwall.kal.com [194.193.14.236] (HELO localhost) by mrwall.kal.com (AltaVista Mail V2.0J/2.0J BL25J listener) id 0000_0045_3948_a033_d6b8; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:21:55 +0100 Received: from somewhere by smtpxd Message-ID: <3145774E67D8D111BE6E00C0DF418B662503C5@nt.kal.com> From: Dave Berry To: Markus Mottl , Pierre Weis Cc: OCAML Subject: RE: Newsgroup for Caml? Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:22:00 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: weis The comp.lang.ml newsgroup is gatewayed to and from the ML mailing list. These were set up to discuss all dialects of ML (that's why the newsgroup is called comp.lang.ml instead of comp.lang.sml, and the same for the mailing list). So you wouldn't be "seizing power", you would be like lost sheep returning to the fold. The number of postings would clearly show which implementation is the more active. Dave. -----Original Message----- From: Markus Mottl [mailto:mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 12:19 AM To: Pierre Weis Cc: OCAML Subject: Re: Newsgroup for Caml? On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Pierre Weis wrote: > > Don't you think that we should create a newsgroup for Caml? There is a lot > > of messages in this mailing list, and perhaps it could be a way to make Caml > > known? Do you have an opinion about that? > > I'm 100% pro :) > > Pierre Weis [as the moderator of the Caml list.] That's understandable ;-) 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... But I think that the volume on our list is acceptably high to open a separate newsgroup. This would definitely lead to much more publicity. The direct comparison of traffic on both newsgroups would then also allow people to recognize the better choice ;) Best regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl