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 QAA22754; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:21:46 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA22387 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:21:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from saul.cis.upenn.edu (SAUL.CIS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.12.4]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9MELi514489 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:21:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saul.cis.upenn.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g9MELhsw027993; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:21:43 -0400 (EDT) To: brogoff@speakeasy.net cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" Reply-to: bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Moderation In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:21:12 -0700. Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:21:43 EDT Message-ID: <27992.1035296503@saul.cis.upenn.edu> From: "Benjamin C. Pierce" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk The main issue I see with the caml-list is not lack of moderation: like everyone, I'd prefer to have the spam and trolls filtered a bit better, but there's really not that much of that stuff. The more serious problem is the ever-increasing volume of *interesting* messages! OCaml is a central tool in my work (right up there with Emacs and TeX :-), and I feel it's quite important for me to stay on top of what's happening in the community, participate in discussions of new features, learn about dark corners and subtle gochas, find out about plans for the future, etc. But lately it's been getting to be a significant burden even to scan message headers -- on some days, caml-list accounts for a third of all the (non-spam) mail I receive. 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. Regards, Benjamin ------------------- 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