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 RAA17046; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:24:22 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA17544 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:24:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from chopin.ai.univie.ac.at (chopin.ai.univie.ac.at [131.130.174.170]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f8DFOKP02546; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:24:20 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from markus@localhost) by chopin.ai.univie.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id RAA03622; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:24:14 +0200 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:24:14 +0200 From: Markus Mottl To: Alan Schmitt , Frank Atanassow Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Newbie list Message-ID: <20010913172414.D2677@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> References: <20010913144929.A22305@cs.uu.nl> <20010913151932.A2510@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> <20010913170344.A22378@cs.uu.nl> <20010913144929.A22305@cs.uu.nl> <20010913151932.A2510@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> <20010913163529.N28075@alan-schm1p> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010913163529.N28075@alan-schm1p>; from alan.schmitt@inria.fr on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 16:35:29 +0200 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- 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