| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta |
| Date: | 2006-09-03 23:53:46 |
| Message-ID: | 44FB6B0A.1050408@commandprompt.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> As for remarks about old school unix hackers not liking web interfaces,
>> I think Tom's recent remarks relating to the 21st century were more than
>> apposite.
>
> I don't see a big problem with using a web interface to search for
> information --- they're good at that. If you're thinking that the
> hackers community is willing to abandon email as a discussion medium
> for a web forum, however, you're going to be sadly disappointed ... and
> I don't see how it would help anyway: a pile of text is a pile of text,
> no matter where it came from.
I don't think anyone would expect that (at least I wouldn't). Heck, even
I wouldn't use a web forum.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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