Re: [Caml-list] Change policy on beginners list?

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 03:58:13PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:09:41AM -0500, Marshall wrote:
> > I’m an OCaml beginner, so you would think that I would find the OCaml 
> > beginners’ list helpful.  However, every interaction I have with Yahoo 
> > groups just pushes me away.  There are obnoxious ads in the web 
> > interface, which is not very intuitive anyway.  I could use the 
> > beginners list/group via email, but that would require using my Yahoo 
> > email address, which I don’t have set up on any of my mail clients.  
> > When I go into the Yahoo web mail interface, I mainly see a list of 
> > junk mail that I don’t care about, so I don’t want to use the Yahoo 
> > address.  More than once, I have thought, “I should use the OCaml 
> > beginners’ list.”  When I start to go down that path, I stop.  Yahoo 
> > groups are too distasteful.  I’m not sure how many other people feel 
> > this way, but surely I’m not alone.  That means that for some new 
> > OCaml users, the public face of OCaml support pushes us away.  So 
> > sending new users to the Yahoo group seems unhelpful to the growth of 
> > OCaml.
> 
> The best way I've found to read the OCaml beginners mailing list is 
> to use the Pan usenet browser, aiming it at the usenet group 
> gmane.comp.lang.ocaml.beginners at news.gmane.org.
> 
> It beatss any web email interface I've used.  And if you don't like Pan, 
> there are other news readers.

Reading it as incoming email works fine, too.

-- hendrik