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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