| From: | "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: whatcom-pgsql |
| Date: | 2014-08-05 00:19:41 |
| Message-ID: | 9375B8AF-7B17-4BBC-83F1-C25A119F0A7E@excoventures.com |
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On Aug 4, 2014, at 7:07 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> On 08/04/2014 12:04 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Um. Most PUG lists are dead. I hesitate to create more of them. Can I
>> suggest to use some other mechanism, such as meetup.com as lots of other
>> PUGs do, at least initially?
>
> Meetup.com mailing lists aren't useful for actual communication. They
> just work for announcements.
I disagree with this - it really is at the discretion of the meetup organizer. For example at NYCPUG we used to have discussions on the Meetup list, but as the group grew it made more sense to limit it to just announcements. People do make use of the discussion boards and other tools on Meetup to communicate.
Jonathan
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