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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAED4BBAF for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:58:22 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aj4BAHuN3UlQW+UCe2dsb2JhbACWKAEBFiIEqFCHF4hNg3sG X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.40,160,1238968800"; d="scan'208";a="25957011" Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) ([80.91.229.2]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 09 Apr 2009 14:58:22 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lrtpj-00074i-Sd for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:58:20 +0000 Received: from cpe-72-229-116-34.nyc.res.rr.com ([72.229.116.34]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:58:19 +0000 Received: from cconway by cpe-72-229-116-34.nyc.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:58:19 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Chris Conway Subject: Re: proposition to create a core-caml-list Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:58:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1239270032.15468.5.camel@asus.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 72.229.116.34 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032711 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.8) Sender: news X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 fine-grained:01 gmane:01 gmane:01 functions:01 writes:01 purely:02 data:02 modules:02 caml:02 caml:02 functional:02 francois:02 francois:02 programming:03 Colonna Francois upmc.fr> writes: > > Hello, > > Would it be possible to open another mailing list only devoted to the > ``Core Caml`` aspects of OCaml ? > > Being restricted to purely functional programming topics (functions, > data types, modules, etc), this list would be lighter and reading it > would hopefully be much less time consuming. > > I suggest to name it "core-caml-list". > > Best, > > François Colonna I can't support this proposal, mainly because I think such a fine-grained topic-based partition of the list is unlikely to be widely understood or observed. As a solution to the volume problem, I've found it convenient to follow this list via the Gmane RSS feed (http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria). Tabbing through posts in a feed reader is much less hassle then deleting emails from your inbox. Regards, Chris