To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>,
	"PostgreSQL www" <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list? 
In-reply-to: <200408120937.59254.josh@agliodbs.com> 
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Comments: In-reply-to Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
	message dated "Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:37:59 -0700"
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:44:08 -0400
Message-ID: <14795.1092347048@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> However, I don't want this list to lose sight of the fact that *us*
> recieving 50-100 extra email/day on some list or another is a
> qualitatively different thing from a newbie signing up on NOVICE and
> immediately getting hit with 200 e-mails in the first 12 hours.

I hear you, but is it going to help much to split -novice into -novice
and -novice-windows?  If we get overwhelmed with new novices, they'll
all be in the latter list and they'll *still* have an unreasonable
amount of traffic.  What's more, they won't be getting any help from the
not-quite-so-novice-anymore denizens of the older list.

I think Dave's probably got the right idea: what we really need to be
looking for is a way to shift some of the support load away from the
mailing lists entirely.  We're all accustomed to mailing lists as The
Way To Have A Community, but there's a limit to how far the concept
will scale.

			regards, tom lane