[Haskell] Re: on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

minh thu noteed at gmail.com
Mon Jul 14 07:45:31 EDT 2008


> [snip]
> beginners at haskell.org:  Although this name definitely captures the
> flavor of the mailing list and also conveys a sense of community (with
> the addition of the 's,' thanks to Dan Licata), the double-n is easy
> to mistake for beginners, and a new user would probably have
> difficulty remembering whether the name was "beginner" or "beginners"
> if a sudden question arose after six months of absence from the
> mailing list.

Don't we need to register to be able to post to the ml ?
Don't we need to see (and the copy(/paste)) the address in the first place ?
Don't we get an automated response with some info (including a
reminder of the ml address) ?
The issue of mispelling a mail address is a bit weak imo.

Cheers,
Thu


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