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 VAA02168; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:58:47 +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 VAA01866 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:58:46 +0200 (MET DST) 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 RAA23872 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:01:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from alan-schm1p.inria.fr (DHCP12-47.CIS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.13.137]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9MF10D10083 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:01:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by alan-schm1p.inria.fr (Postfix, from userid 501) id 3DA854452; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:56:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:56:53 -0400 From: Alan Schmitt To: "caml-list@inria.fr" Cc: bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Moderation Message-ID: <20021022145653.GY2189@alan-schm1p> Mail-Followup-To: "caml-list@inria.fr" , bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu References: <27992.1035296503@saul.cis.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <27992.1035296503@saul.cis.upenn.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Editor: Vim http://vim.sf.net/ X-Info: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~aschmitt/ X-Operating-System: Linux/2.4.19-16mdk (i686) X-Uptime: 10:43am up 11:50, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.08 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk * Benjamin C. Pierce (bcpierce@saul.cis.upenn.edu) wrote: > Since the problem is essentially too much of a good thing, it's hard to > see what could be a complete solution. But I think there are several > little steps that can help. Having a separate caml-announce list is a > good step, and I hope people get (even more) in the habit of using it to > let others know about useful stuff. I also wonder whether someone > (perhaps Alan Schmitt, who does something similar already?) could try > posting occasional "minutes" of the discussions on the list, so that > people like me could check in and see what's been going on without trying > to read every message. The 'Caml Weekly News' is supposed to give news of what's happening in the ocaml world to the people reading the development page of the Linux Weekly News. As I said previously, the way I select messages is very subjective. For instance, here are the headers of the one I sent this morning (it is sent every Tuesday morning, to be included in the lwn of the following thursday): 1) AIFAD-1.0.2 2) MLdonkey 2.00 3) Operator overloading 4) OCaml-SOAP library : bug fixed 5) ICFP 2002 Programming Contest Write-up Items 1, 2, and 4 are new software announcement, item 4 is some part of the operator overloading discussion (which I found interesting), and item 5 was mandatory since the web page says "O'Caml is the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers." ;-) I'm really open to discussion to what I should include, and how I should distribute this letter. At the moment I just have an alias file that I manually update, and archives of the cwn are not online (I could put them online if considered useful). I'm not sure about sending the cwn to the list, since I basically quote messages there (and give pointers to the archives when the discussion gets too long). As concerns moderation, I'm strongly against, as it really slows down some debates (or we would need a bunch of moderators in different time zones ...), and as the number of unwelcomed messages is fairly low. Alan -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. ------------------- 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/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners