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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: jd@commandprompt.com
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: List traffic
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 18:46:04 -0400
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 19:13 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> But that, IMHO, is the point of the smaller list ... it allows the group 
>> on that list to hash out their ideas, and, hopefully, deal with both 
>> arguments and counter arguments so that when presented to the larger 
>> group, they would then have a more cohesive arg for their ideas ...

> Yes and no. After being on these lists for years, I have kind of been
> moving toward the less is more. E.g; for main list traffic I can see the
> need for two maybe three, that's it:

> hackers
> general
> www

I can see the need for small tightly-focused special lists.  www is a
good example, and perhaps pgsql-cluster-hackers is too (though I'm less
convinced of that than Marc is).  I agree that we've done poorly with
lists with wider charters, mainly because there is so little clarity
about which topics belong where.

I'd keep -bugs and -performance, which seem to be reasonably well
focused, but I can definitely see collapsing most of the other "user"
lists into -general.

			regards, tom lane



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