SUGGESTION: haskell-announce mailing list

[C.Reinke]

Several contributors to the HC&A Report reported the same problem
with the current setup of Haskell mailing lists: In spite of the
split into haskell and haskell-cafe, they missed the general calls
for contributions on haskell@haskell.org because some of them, being
involved in other work as well, only browse the flood of traffic.

When the list was originally split into haskell (for announcements
and discussion starters) and haskell-cafe (for longer discussions),
some of us suggested a separate haskell-announce instead (or indeed,
support for client-based filtering instead of this server-based split).

In my own setup, postings to haskell and haskell-cafe still go into
a single folder, and I separate out announcements and similar things
by hand (because I usually don't have the time to follow them up
immediately, and because there's no reliable pattern to use for
automatic filtering; e.g., this very email I'd filter out into the
TODO area, even though it's not strictly speaking an announcement).  

Even though many discussions move quickly to haskell-cafe, which
some of us are no longer subscribed to, the discussion starters and
the more technical discussions still seem to generate enough traffic
that some Haskellers miss announcements made on haskell.

Based on this recent negative experience, I suggest to introduce a
separate haskell-announce mailing list. To avoid upsetting the
existing split, this ought to be split off the haskell list (i.e.,
everyone subscribed to haskell would initially be subscribed to
haskell and to haskell-announce).

Opinions? Suggestions?

Cheers,
Claus