Re: A maze of twisty mailing lists all the same

+1 for the idea, and +1 for the Zork reference. Hello sailor.

On 4/8/2010 1:11 AM Greg Stark wrote:
> I've often said in the past that we have too many mailing lists with
> overlapping and vague charters. I submit the following thread as
> evidence that this causes real problems.
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/g2o4b46b5f01004010610ib8625426uae6ee90ac1435ba1@mail.gmail.com
>
> Because the poster chose to send it to pgsql-admin instead of
> pgsql-general (or pgsql-bugs) very few of the usual suspects had a
> chance to see it. 7 days later a question about a rather serious
> database corruption problem had no responses. I've never understand
> what the point of pgsql-admin is; just about every question posted is
> an "admin" question of some sort.
>
> Likewise I don't think we should have pgsql-performance or pgsql-sql
> or pgsql-novice -- any thread appropriate for any of these would be
> better served by sending it to pgsql-general anyways (with the
> exception of pgsql-performance which has a weird combination of hacker
> threads and user performance tuning threads). Sending threads to
> pgsql-general would get more eyes on them and would avoid a lot of the
> cross-posting headaches. What would someone subscribed to one of these
> lists but not pgsql-general get anyways but some random sample of
> threads that might be vaguely performance or admin related. They would
> still miss most of the administration and performance questions and
> discussions which happen on -general and -hackers as appropriate.
>