From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA19104; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:19:44 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA18258 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:19:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wsnyc.fame.com (pixnj254.fame.com [192.88.60.254]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f8DGJeP24403 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:19:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from CONSULTING2000P (dhcp-ny-245.fame.com [192.88.66.245]) by wsnyc.fame.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24103 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:19:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Collin Monahan" Cc: Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Newbie list Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:29:04 -0400 Organization: FAME Information Services, Inc. Message-ID: <000401c13c71$344654c0$f54258c0@CONSULTING2000P> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20010913172414.D2677@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk As a newbie my opinion is that I'd be more likely to post questions to a second list than here with one list. Even though when I asked questions before I felt quite welcomed. Collin Monahan -----Original Message----- From: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr [mailto:owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Markus Mottl Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11=A424 To: Alan Schmitt; Frank Atanassow Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Newbie list On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Alan Schmitt wrote: > We did this for the enlightenment lists, because some developers were=20 > getting bothered with all the newbie questions [snip] Your experience seems to indicate that we should try out creating a specific list for newbies. It's probably to the better for all sides: newbies won't be afraid of joining this list and asking "stupid" questions (only unasked questions are stupid, IMHO), and more experienced developers won't get distracted while discussing more hard-core issues. On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Frank Atanassow wrote: > I might subscribe to the newbies list and answer questions myself. The > reason I want a separate newbie list is that I can unsubscribe from it > when I get busy without missing the other discussions and=20 > announcements. Though I guess that many people use mail clients with threading capabilities, it still seems better to have separate lists: this way one could automatically sort mails from both lists into different folders and thus prevent cluttering one's inbox (or caml-list inbox). When I don't have time to answer basic questions, I'd simply not look at the caml-newbie folder. It's difficult to resist, when all mails go to the same folder (I am not very disciplined ;) ... Regards, Markus Mottl --=20 Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr