Re: Is the scala list getting too busy? (correction)

martin odersky wrote:
> [Sorry, last mail got sent by accident before I was finished composing]
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Over the weekend we must have had upwards of 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 will
> unsubscribe now, because they cannot tolerate the load.

I would suggest to wait 1-2 weeks to see if that situation appear
again and then make active the changes we decided in our internal
Scala meeting.


Bye
--Stephane

> 
> 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).

Me too.

> 
> Another possibility would be to sub-divide the list. I have thought
> about this and would like to present the following proposal.
> There could be three lists:
> 
> scala                        for announcements, fundamental questions,
> and starts of discussions.
> scala-programming    for presentations of nice programming solutions,
> questions about programming etc.
> scala-discussion       for discussions about language design, libraries,
> language evolution, etc.
> 
> What do you think? Is this useful? Which of the lists would you
> subscribe to? Should there be other sublists?
> Please respond directly to me. I will then summarize to the list.
> 
> Cheers
> 
>  -- Martin
> 
> 
>