Re: The first dedicated PostgreSQL forum

On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Tom Lane wrote:

> I'm not nearly as concerned about whether there are forums as about having
> "rogue" forums outside the postgresql.org domain. People could
> misperceive such things as having some official status, which would lead
> to conclusions like "postgres must be dead because there's no traffic in
> this forum". It needs to be connected to the community as a whole, and
> some random guy deciding to create his own forum doesn't sound like a
> recipe for getting to that.

Tom,

A reasonable concern. I was certainly not advocating or supporting the
idea of a Web-based forum. As an old curmudgeon I much prefer mail lists.

Rich