Re: move to usenet?

> > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Jules Alberts wrote:
> >
> > > This is not a troll and I certainly don't want to start a holy war but
> > > wouldn't it be a good idea to move the postgresql lists from the
> > > mailing list approach to usenet? IMHO it's more open and easier to work
> > > with. As it is now, there are some postgreql usenet groups but hardly
> > > anything happens there.

If there are already postgresql usenet groups and they're going unused it
would seem the users of the lists have already voted with their feet...

I've never seen any development groups successfully use usenet groups. They
always end up moribund and development either crashes or migrates to a mailing
list. I think people just think about usenet groups and mailing lists
differently.

(The only counter-examples I know of are the php groups and the mozilla
groups. However, in reality both groups carry on a lot of their development
communication outside of the newsgroups.)

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