Re: Quality of email postings

Here's my perspective as an EnterpriseDB employee, which I suspect will
match the perspective of many other EnterpriseDB employees, as well as
the perspective of many folks who work for PostgreSQL companies other
than EnterpriseDB: (BTW, JoshKramer, you now owe me $10. Just send it to
SPI.)

Bruce is right, bikeshedding on this list list is a very big danger.
Advocacy is something everyone feels they can at least talk about,
unlike many other discussions on other lists. I'm not sure if this is
good or bad... the upside is that we can get some ideas that otherwise
wouldn't be heard.

But the problem is that trying to keep up with this list can be a big
burden for anyone who's not used to the lists. There's an interesting
effect I've noticed... when a thread "takes off" on this list, it's
basically guaranteed to hit at least 30 emails, and often within just a
day or two. It's pretty rare for threads to do that on other lists.
Again, I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

Perhaps the best idea would be to encourage new folks to get involved in
the list first, and the see how things go. If after a month (or
whatever) it's still an issue, hopefully they will have more specific
critiques of what's wrong so that we can focus on that.
--
Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)