What I don't like with the current beginners list is that it is a yahoo list. This means yet another painful "create an account" process to subscribe, useless stuff added at the end of emails, and general an unnecessary interface clutter added on top of an otherwise simple and efficient communication tool.

Philippe, what do you mean by "hack with a tiny community", do you have example of discussions that would be pertinent there? Why would it be harmful to have them in the standard mailing list?

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Philippe Wang <mail@philippewang.info> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
<mihamina@bbs.mg> wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:58:46 +0200
>> Fabrice Le Fessant <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr> wrote:
>
>>  Is it really necessary to
>> have two mailing-lists, especially when considering the traffic on
>> both lists ?
>
> I am also subscribed to the "beginners" list.
> IMHO, it's useless to have 2 MLs.

IMHO, currently, it's more "harmful" than "useless".
Or, perhaps it'd be relevant to have two mailing list:
-  a "normal" mailing list (which would be the result of combining
current caml-list and caml-beginners lists),
- and a "hackers" mailing list for those who want to hack with a tiny community.

Anyhow, the "default" mailing list being the one for hackers and
experimented users is, imho, very bad for OCaml.

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