Is the scala list getting too busy?

Dear all,

Over the weekend we must have had 100 messages on scala (I did not
count them, but that's how it felt). Lively discussion and lots of
questions are great! However, I am worried that people who subscribed
to the scala list only for keeping track of important announcements and
the like will unsubscribe now, because they cannot tolerate the load. 

One possible answer would be to turn the mailing list into a newsgroup.
I am skeptical about this, because I personally don't read news anymore
(takes too much time, and a different reader).

Anorther possibility would be to sub-divide the list. I have thought
about this and would liek to present the following proposal:
There would be three lists:

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