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From: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list?
Date: 11 Aug 2004 13:17:43 -0400
Message-ID: <1092244663.8616.2240.camel@camel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E41A76CB@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk>
References: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E41A76CB@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk>

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 12:11, Dave Page wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Josh Berkus [mailto:[email protected]] 
> > Also, I *am* expecting the windows port to expand out active 
> > online community by at least 1000 subscribers, if not 5 times 
> > that.  My experience with other projects (like 
> > OpenOffice.org) showed that when a mailing list gets too big 
> > (somewhere between 60 and 100 posts a day) it becomes 
> > prohibitive for the 
> > entry-level user as a support mechanism.   Some people have 
> > yahoo accounts, 
> > you know?
> 
> That's a different issue altogether though (perfectly valid though). Is
> there a more appropriate way to split the existing groups perhaps? I'm
> opposed to shifting the windows users onto a platform specific group
> just because there's a lot of them. I'm not opposed to shifting them if
> we find there are lots of platform specific problems though.
> 

Josh, so you see the windows list duplicating ground from some of the
other lists?  Ie. the description of the windows list would be inclusive
of "admin"-ing on windows, "performance" on windows, and "general" usage
problems on windows?

Robert Treat
-- 
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL




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