From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C25ABC69 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:10:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2B3Ags8008936 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:10:43 +0100 Received: from out1.internal (unknown [10.202.2.149]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 168C11F69C3; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:10:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by out1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:10:41 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: w4TfYofMX8pDVzFLzLeI49bKY2ZEhK3K4x5NMwUdOD+c 1173582641 Received: from adsl-75-42-174-159.dsl.sndg02.sbcglobal.net (adsl-75-42-174-159.dsl.sndg02.sbcglobal.net [75.42.174.159]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498741C46E; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:10:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:10:30 -0800 (PST) From: Martin Jambon X-X-Sender: martin@droopy To: Joel Reymont Cc: Caml List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml-developer mailing-list: subscribe now! In-Reply-To: <5724ECA9-C45C-49DD-8C12-EA6F7D6148EB@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <78295CB6-B05B-4AF1-9AD5-AE7A8E7B42FA@epfl.ch> <5724ECA9-C45C-49DD-8C12-EA6F7D6148EB@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 45F37332.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ens-lyon:01 ocaml:01 beginners':01 ocaml:01 beginners':01 2007,:98 2007,:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 caml-list:01 jambon:01 jambon:01 programming:03 long:06 On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Joel Reymont wrote: > On Mar 10, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Martin Jambon wrote: > >> To a newcomer, caml-list looks a lot like a forum for programming language >> researchers, which is cool, but not being able to understand 2/3 of the >> messages is kind of intimidating for someone who thought he/she knew OCaml. > > I'll play the devil's advocate here and suggest that this is what the > ocaml-beginners Yahoo! Group is for. That's what happens in practice. But no, the ocaml-beginners list is described as a beginners' forum. Why would anyone else subscribe? I've been receiving the messages from ocaml-beginners since its creation. At that time I was not a beginner for a long time already, but it has been interesting until now because some questions are just practical questions which do not have anything to do with learning the OCaml language. But here again, not everyone is interested in reading and answering beginners' questions, which still constitutes the majority of messages there. Martin -- Martin Jambon http://martin.jambon.free.fr