[Haskell-cafe] When is it OK to create a new mailing list?

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:51 +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> Am Samstag, 2. Mai 2009 14:11 schrieb Mads Lindstrøm:
> > Hi
> >
> > I wanted a mailing list for my project WxGeneric and I am wondering when
> > it is OK to do so? How big must the potential audience be? Is there any
> > kind of etiquette or guidelines?
> >
> > Here http://haskell.org/mailman/admin it says that I must have "the
> > proper authority" to create a mailing list. What is meant by "proper
> > authority"? Can I just try to create one and see if I am successful? Or
> > must I request someone to do it?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I think there are two Mailmans on haskell.org. The page 
> <http://haskell.org/mailman/admin> refers to the one which hosts 
> haskell-cafe, ghc-users, etc. The other one hosts the mailing lists of 
> projects.haskell.org.
> 
> You can host relatively small projects on projects.haskell.org and you can 
> create a mailing list for each of them. So maybe projects.haskell.org is the 
> way to go for you?

Yes, I would recommend for smaller project-specific mailing lists that
you take advantage of the community server which is set up for this
purpose. We provide code hosting, project webspace, shell access, trac
instances and mailing lists. You can pick and choose, you don't need to
use all of them.

See http://community.haskell.org/

Duncan