Re: New mailing list?

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 2014-06-25 19:33:06 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Why not just use -general, in order not to fragment our userbase even
> more.
> > It's already got declining voiume, so adding a little bit more to it
> > shouldn't be a big problem.
>
> Because people complain when other people post stuff that's not 'core
> postgres' on -hackers/-general/-bugs. That already has happened a couple
> of times.
>

So now that will just change to complaints that they are posting to the
wrong list... The difference being that they could now, in theory, get sent
a link to the proper list. And if it *is* the official channel, then that
would actually be less likely to happen. But people will complain either
way.

Anyway. I still think it would be better to give that a try and create a
list if we know it is needed, rather than preemptively create one. Mainly
because it's so much easier to create one than to remove one. But if people
are absolutely against that, I guess we should create it - it's definitely
a project we'll want to promote I believe.

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