dmd beta mailing list

[grauzone]

Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

Why would you put up a barrier for beta-testing?

The concurrency mailing list I can understand (that's Andrei's thing).