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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>,
	"PostgreSQL www" <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:04:06 -0700
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Dave,

> Are you really expecting that many platform specific questions? With a
> separate list I can already see the confusion as users get bounced onto
> another list because their question is slightly more of a platform
> issue, or actually an SQL issue.

So far, I'm seeing a lot of them.   This could me because the Win port is 
still buggy, of course, but it might continue.

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?

So it's as much wanting to have another list of any kind as having a 
windows-specific list.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco