From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: jd@commandprompt.com, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
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@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: List traffic
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:08:34 -0400
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> On 5/27/10 8:38 AM, Greg Stark wrote:
>> Mot administration
>> questions are originally posed as general help questions. If you're
>> subscribed to these lists you get a random, fairly small, subset of
>> discussion related these topics.
> Only someone who is a postgresql developer would consider 15-30
> posts/day "small". For most of our user base, the level of traffic on
> -performance, -sql, and -general is already too high and many people
> don't subscribe to these lists because it is too high. I get complaints
> -- and people personal-sending me questions because they don't want to
> subscribe -- all the time.
> Having fewer posts on any particular list is *desireable*. It's a good
> thing. It's *only* a problem when a bug report or user question goes
> unanswered because the list is unattended. And so far, I've only seen
> one report of that.
Well, there's no free lunch. If we have a whole lot of "small" lists
there are going to be two big downsides: fewer people reading each list
(hence fewer answers), and many more arguably-misclassified postings,
thus diluting the theoretical targetedness of the lists.
If you want good answers to questions you need to post them in a forum
where there are enough people to ensure someone will know the answer
(and have the time/interest to respond). People who want answers and
don't want to have to read other discussions should consider obtaining
commercial support.
regards, tom lane
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