[Haskell-cafe] Re: Maintaining the community

[Andrew Coppin]

Dave Bayer wrote:
> Malcolm Wallace <Malcolm.Wallace <at> cs.york.ac.uk> writes:
>   
>> Yes, the sheer volume of posts is definitely becoming a problem (for me,
>> at least).
>>     
>
> As a newcomer I was stunned that this otherwise very sophisticated community was
> using an email list rather than a bulletin board. The shear torrent of email was
> impacting my mail program performance.
>   

Seconded. (I also commented on it at the time, and was told "use IRC or 
SMTP". Personally I'd prefer NNTP, but apparently I'm a minority here...)