[Haskell-cafe] Haskell-cafe-cafe? Was: Re: Health effects

Christopher Lane Hinson lane at downstairspeople.org
Sat Oct 4 09:54:04 EDT 2008


On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>
> Oddly enough, it seems to me that haskell-*cafe* identifies a list that isn't 
> tightly focused, as compared to haskell at haskell.org.  Perhaps we need to 
> rethink names (although any changes will probably hurt).

I thought this too.  But, I think that haskell-cafe is high traffic, 
whereas people subscribe just to haskell at haskell.org when they just want 
announcements and HWN (which has been awesome lately, by the way).

But I think a discussion e.g. about providing medical treatment to 
prisoners of war might benefit both haskell-cafe and the discussion itself 
to be on another list.

Especially as the community is growing rapidly, it might benefit from 
having an outlet for all of this energy.

I think just putting a little note beside the mailing list "high traffic" 
as opposed to "off topic" before you get to the subscribe step would 
suffice, without needing to change names.

--Lane


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