[Haskell] The Haskell mailing list

[kahl at cas.mcmaster.ca]

"Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj at microsoft.com> writes:

> Can anyone remember when the Haskell mailing list first opened?  Does
> anyone have an archive that goes right back to the beginning?

In my news archives
(which start 9 Feb 92,
 shortly after we got an internet connection back there :-)
I found the Haskell 1.2 announcement,
which refers to a mailing list:

 | From: peterson-john at CS.YALE.EDU (john peterson)
 | Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 18:27:21 GMT
 | Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
 | Subject: Haskell Report version 1.2 and tutorial now available
 | 
 | [...]
 | 
 | A mailing list for general discussions about Haskell is reachable in
 | one of two ways:
 | 
 |     haskell at cs.yale.edu  or  haskell at dcs.glasgow.ac.uk
 | 
 | To be added to the above mailing list, send mail to either
 | haskell-request at cs.yale.edu or haskell-request at dcs.glasgow.ac.uk,
 | whichever is the nearer site to you.  Please do not post
 | administrative requests direct to the mailing list.  To inquire about
 | implementation status, send mail to one of the addresses mentioned in
 | the preface of the report.

(One of the next messages:

 | From: partain at dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Will Partain)
 | Date: 30 Mar 92 08:46:57 GMT
 | Newsgroups: mail.haskell,comp.lang.functional
 | Subject: glorious Glasgow Haskell compiler, 0.06, PATCH 1

;-)


Wolfram