[Haskell-cafe] the beginning of the end (was: Hackage down?)

[Don Stewart]

trebla:
> On 10-12-04 01:03 PM, Antoine Latter wrote:
>> Here's a Reddit post:
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/efw38/reminder_hackagehaskellorg_outage_tomorrow_due_to/
>
> This is the second consecutive time a planned downtime is not announced  
> on either mailing lists.
>
> This seems to me planned obsoletion of the mailing lists.
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/82673
>
> For now, if a web 2.0 source I care enough about provides RSS, I make do  
> with adding it to Google Reader, which provides mark-as-read and  
> show-all-and-only-those-unread as perfectly as long-existing email 
> programs.


You can get a feed of haskell.org announcements here:

    http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/216043045.rss

Particularly when the mailing lists are down (e.g. due to server
migration), cloud-hosted services have proven invaluable for getting the
word out.

-- Don