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From: mfeldman AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu (Michael Feldman)
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Subject: Re: GNAT electronic mailing list ready for subscriptions!
Date: 3 Oct 1995 12:56:28 -0400
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In article <EACHUS DOT 95Oct2142741 AT spectre DOT mitre DOT org>,
Robert I. Eachus <eachus AT spectre DOT mitre DOT org> wrote:

>    A CFV might be a good idea, but I think I agree with Robert Dewar
>that that day has not come quite yet.  But I thought that the mailing
>list was to serve a quite different purpose, focusing on things of
>interest to those doing ports and harmonizing details between like
>ports.

>    Maybe the mailing list name should reflect this?

Well, right now it is "gnatlist". I think listproc limits one to
8 characters. As of a few minutes ago, the list has over 70 subscribers
and this is only the second weekday of its existence.

Interestingly, many of these subscribers, who want to chat about GNAT
to like-minded folks, have names I've never, or very rarely, seen on
CLA or the djgpp group. We know there are lots of lurkers on both
groups; now I'm very interested to see whether the lurkers will 
actually write stuff to the mailing list. 

In my experience, lists are generally friendlier and more productive 
than newsgroups, unless one goes to the trouble of a moderated group. 
CLA should NOT be moderated; nobody should have the thankless job of 
trying to moderate this crowd.:-)

Bob, if you haven't signed up, why not do so and lurk for a while.
That's exactly what I did.:-)

As I said, my ego is not in this, and I do not plan to write to the
list unless I have something productive to say on _its_ topic. If
it turns out to be of service to the community, so be it. If not, 
so be it. The rapid rate of subscription does seem to be sending us
a message about its usefulness. Let's see how it goes.

Mike Feldman