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 GAA16921; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:58:32 +0100 (MET) 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 GAA16932 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:58:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from math.berkeley.edu (gold.Math.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.58.61]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f1E5wUP27171 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:58:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from blue1.math.Berkeley.EDU (blue1.Math.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.58.58]) by math.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA04697; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:58:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from datta@localhost) by blue1.math.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA10578; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:58:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:58:28 -0800 From: Ruchira Datta To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] Thanks Message-ID: <20010213215828.A9700@blue1.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: datta@math.berkeley.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I would like to thank Pierre Weis for all his hard work moderating this list. I hope he does not feel it was thankless; I certainly appreciated it. He has done quite an amazing job at what must be an overwhelming task. I did not understand why some felt the synchronous nature of the list to be a problem. Email is read synchronously anyway (whether moderated or not); it is not chat. Most of the discussions I have seen are not urgent requests; they can keep a little while. There's another forum for such requests anyway: the comp.lang.ml newsgroup. However, I read the mailing list much more religiously than the newsgroup, which must in large part be due to Pierre Weis's moderation. Previously each forum filled a different niche: high throughput versus high information content. (I am not denigrating the newsgroup, but the difference was noticeable.) Georges Mariano wrote: > May I quote Xavier : > < *** what we planned to do for a while:*** > manage the caml-list under Majordomo.>> > So, in fact this is not my own idea... This is a specious inference. As Xavier also said, both moderated and unmoderated lists can be managed with Majordomo. The idea that it will be easier to keep up with the list if it is unmoderated runs counter to both reason and experience, but I guess now we will have a chance to find out. Let me add that I consider myself still an Ocaml beginner, yet I have had no trouble perceiving the value in Pierre Weis's moderation. > À partir de quand est-on <> ?? > PS : J'allais dire <>, mais là, c'est (très) méchant... Indeed, it is completely undeserved and ungrateful. It is a slap in the face to the people who have given us so much. So why say it at all? Perhaps it was meant in jest. Email is not a good medium for jests like this. Another good reason for having a moderator... Ruchira Datta datta@math.berkeley.edu ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr