Re: Quality of email postings

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Quality of email postings
Date: 2007-08-10 01:03:58
Message-ID: 46BBB97E.3050907@commandprompt.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I am getting concerned about the quality of email traffic on the
> advocacy list. It seems postings are often not fully formed ideas and
> that threads frequently go on and on with few conclusions. I am
> thinking there has to be more leadership in keeping threads on track,
> and more focus in emails.
>
> Why does this matter? I have been approached by two sales people in the
> past few days who are subscribed to advocacy and want to help
> PostgreSQL, but they are wondering if the advocacy list is a useful
> place for them to help. If we don't add focus to the discussions, we
> risk losing their involvement in advocating PostgreSQL.
>
> FYI, I don't see anywhere near the same kind of unfocused discussion on
> the other PostgreSQL email lists.

What are you actually proposing?

Joshua D. Drake

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