dmd beta mailing list

[Walter Bright]

Walter Bright wrote:
> grauzone wrote:
>> Why are you creating these as mailing lists and not as 
>> news.digitalmars.com groups?
> 
> Because I expect it to be very low traffic, and I wouldn't expect people 
> to constantly have to check the n.g. to see if the beta is available. It 
> also gives feedback on who actually cares about the beta.

There's also the fact that there's a very small barrier to subscribing 
to a mailing list - only people who are particularly interested in it 
will bother. I've seen the mailing list approach used elsewhere because 
of this, and it works well.