From: | Hemil Ruparel <hemilruparel2002(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> |
Cc: | "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists? |
Date: | 2021-01-16 06:10:06 |
Message-ID: | CANW1aT-7VXoVZCCtqrPEQxOWnGWfMK4qkMN78TCcqoGKTJW7jg@mail.gmail.com |
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I fear that mailing lists become like quora. Eternal September
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September> was probably the first
time this happened. History repeats itself. I don't want the community to
lose its value
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 11:37 AM Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
> > On Jan 15, 2021, at 21:51, Hemil Ruparel <hemilruparel2002(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > It's my personal opinion. But i personally do not want to deal with
> entitled people who cannot do basic google searches.
>
> Well, I have to mention that you don't have to deal with them. It might
> be slightly irritating to read questions like that, but they really aren't
> choking the list, and you can just move on to a different question that you
> feel like answering.
>
> There is also a virtue in people asking very basic questions on the list,
> even one that could be revealed by a search, because it gives people who
> are not deep experts a chance to answer the question.
> --
> -- Christophe Pettus
> xof(at)thebuild(dot)com
>
>
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