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From: Markus Mottl <markus@mail4.ai.univie.ac.at>
To: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@inria.fr>, Frank Atanassow <franka@cs.uu.nl>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Newbie list
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:24:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010913172414.D2677@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010913163529.N28075@alan-schm1p>; from alan.schmitt@inria.fr on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 16:35:29 +0200

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> We did this for the enlightenment lists, because some developers were
> 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 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

-- 
Markus Mottl                                             markus@oefai.at
Austrian Research Institute
for Artificial Intelligence                  http://www.oefai.at/~markus
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-13 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-13 12:49 Frank Atanassow
2001-09-13 13:19 ` Markus Mottl
2001-09-13 14:35   ` Alan Schmitt
2001-09-13 15:24     ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2001-09-13 16:29       ` Collin Monahan
2001-09-14 14:20         ` Felix Terkhorn
2001-09-13 15:03   ` Frank Atanassow
2001-09-13 18:32 ` Mike Leary
2001-09-14  5:22   ` Alan Schmitt
2001-09-14  6:40   ` Sven

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