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 TAA23618; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:21:16 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 TAA24275 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:21:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from grace.speakeasy.org (grace.speakeasy.org [216.254.0.2]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g9LHLDD13384 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:21:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 9659 invoked by uid 36130); 21 Oct 2002 17:21:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Oct 2002 17:21:12 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:21:12 -0700 (PDT) From: brogoff@speakeasy.net To: "caml-list@inria.fr" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Moderation In-Reply-To: <20021021154713.A14886@pauillac.inria.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Xavier Leroy wrote: > > Is there any chance that it may be restored? It's removal has been > > disastrous > > I miss moderation too, but we won't find a volunteer willing to > moderate the list (too time consuming!), at least within the Caml > team. There are other possibilities, such as having a group of moderators taking messages out of a set and thus spreading the work. I assume the Caml team considered this and decided it wasn't worth the effort. I'll urge you to reconsider, but just once, since I don't want to start a moderation meta flamefest. Others posters have suggested even more segmentation of the Caml lists, such as industrial vs academic, but I think that's a really bad idea. Unlike some ill-behaved "industrial" programmers, I don't see this distinction as being a meaningful or interesting one. The problem as I see it is a decline in SNR (signal to noise ratio for the acronym impaired ;) since the end of moderation. A large part of that is probably beginner's questions, but the increasing number of hostile flames is ominous. Perhaps, viewed optimistically, this is the inevitable result of Caml's increasing popularity. -- Brian ------------------- 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