From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "PostgreSQL www" <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list? |
Date: | 2004-08-12 21:44:08 |
Message-ID: | 14795.1092347048@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> However, I don't want this list to lose sight of the fact that *us*
> recieving 50-100 extra email/day on some list or another is a
> qualitatively different thing from a newbie signing up on NOVICE and
> immediately getting hit with 200 e-mails in the first 12 hours.
I hear you, but is it going to help much to split -novice into -novice
and -novice-windows? If we get overwhelmed with new novices, they'll
all be in the latter list and they'll *still* have an unreasonable
amount of traffic. What's more, they won't be getting any help from the
not-quite-so-novice-anymore denizens of the older list.
I think Dave's probably got the right idea: what we really need to be
looking for is a way to shift some of the support load away from the
mailing lists entirely. We're all accustomed to mailing lists as The
Way To Have A Community, but there's a limit to how far the concept
will scale.
regards, tom lane
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