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 XAA04881; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:00:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA04819 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:00:20 +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 WAA04066 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 22:48:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from swordfish.cs.caltech.edu (swordfish.cs.caltech.edu [131.215.44.124]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9MKmUD17605 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 22:48:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from quartet.cs.caltech.edu (quartet.cs.caltech.edu [131.215.45.109]) by swordfish.cs.caltech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7957DDF242; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:48:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mvanier@localhost) by quartet.cs.caltech.edu (8.11.6/8.9.3) id g9MKmSH22161; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:48:28 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:48:28 -0700 Message-Id: <200210222048.g9MKmSH22161@quartet.cs.caltech.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: quartet.cs.caltech.edu: mvanier set sender to mvanier@cs.caltech.edu using -f From: Michael Vanier To: schmitta@cis.upenn.edu Sent-via: schmitta@cis.upenn.edu Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu Sent-via: caml-list@inria.fr, bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu In-reply-to: <20021022145653.GY2189@alan-schm1p> (message from Alan Schmitt on Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:56:53 -0400) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Moderation References: <27992.1035296503@saul.cis.upenn.edu> <20021022145653.GY2189@alan-schm1p> Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I tried accessing this, but was asked to subscribe at a fee. Is there any way to view the Caml Weekly News for free? Mike > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:56:53 -0400 > From: Alan Schmitt > > 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 > ------------------- 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