Re: [Caml-list] Ask questions on the mailing lists too

["Sébastien Hinderer" <Sebastien.Hinderer@inria.fr>]

Hey Alan,

Many thanks for your response.

Alan Schmitt (2022/01/17 10:53 +0100):
> Hello Sébastien,
>
> On 2022-01-17 10:20, Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer@inria.fr> writes:
>
> > Being myself blind I feel very concerned about accessibility. I admin I
> > didn't try the forum, but (1) all the forums I tried so far I ofudn way
> > mess accessible than good old mailing lists and (2) yes, mailing lists
> > are totally accessible and, in my opinion, very simple to use.
> > Many thanks for promoting the accessibility concern!
>
> The OCaml forum has a mailing list mode (this is how I read it):

As mentionned, I am not able to enable that mode on my own. I may ask
for help for this step, I just wanted to let people know.

> All posts are sent as email messages, preserving a thread structure. One can
> also reply to a post by email. This mode must be set as a preference on
> the site to be activated. There are limitations, however: edited
> messages are not resent (so it’s impossible to know what the edit was),
> and I think quotes are not preserved when replying to messages (I should
> recheck that).

Is it possible to start a thread by e-mail (not just to respond to
existing threads).

> Following both this mailing list and the forum, I have to say there is
> much more activity going on there nowadays.

I was assuming that the forum was more promoted than the list and that
this difference was the exmlanation. Well things may be the other way
around, and now I suspect they actually happen in both directions.

Sébastien.