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 QAA16971; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:59:03 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA16819 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:59:03 +0200 (MET DST) 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 QAA16553 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:39:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from alan-schm1p.inria.fr (alan-schm1p.inria.fr [128.93.20.79]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f8DEdVP20577 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:39:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by alan-schm1p.inria.fr (Postfix, from userid 11207) id 8E4492362B; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:35:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:35:29 +0200 From: Alan Schmitt To: Markus Mottl Cc: Frank Atanassow , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Newbie list Message-ID: <20010913163529.N28075@alan-schm1p> Mail-Followup-To: Markus Mottl , Frank Atanassow , caml-list@inria.fr References: <20010913144929.A22305@cs.uu.nl> <20010913151932.A2510@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010913151932.A2510@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at>; from markus@mail4.ai.univie.ac.at on jeu, sep 13, 2001 at 03:19:32 +0200 X-Editor: Vim http://vim.sf.net/ X-Info: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~aschmitt/ X-Operating-System: Linux/2.4.7 (i686) X-Uptime: 4:23pm up 5 days, 13:11, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi, We did this for the enlightenment lists, because some developers were getting bothered with all the newbie questions, so we created an enlightenment-users mailing list. This means that some developers, or people who know a bit, subscribe to this list to answer questions. I found out that subscribing to both list is fine, traffic has increased a bit (newbies seem to be less frightened, and the people who subscribed to the user list are ready to read faq, so they don't scare newbies away ;-), and the general impression is positive. The only requirement for this to work is to ensure that some people who know about ocaml are ready to subscribe and answer to questions. Alan * Markus Mottl (markus@mail4.ai.univie.ac.at) wrote: > A very difficult question indeed: if we do this, the advanced users may > find more time for productive development work, but who would answer > the newbies' questions then? OTOH, it might be very effective to let > the newbies teach themselves in a kind of "caml-cradle". Knowledge > (and lack thereof) is usually distributed so newbies are not unlikely > to solve most basic issues in cooperation. > > Since I am always eager to experiment, it might be worth a try to create > special lists for special purposes (like teaching newbies). If things > don't work as intended, we can always merge the lists again. > > Regards, > Markus Mottl -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. ------------------- 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