X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086E014B2866 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:51:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 79531-01 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:51:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B8C14B2825 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:51:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 19E013AEC7; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:51:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8E93AE97; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:51:14 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:51:13 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: scrappy@ganymede.hub.org To: Josh Berkus Cc: Dave Page , PostgreSQL www Subject: Re: PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list? In-Reply-To: <200408110930.22269.josh@agliodbs.com> Message-ID: <20040811224915.O62519@ganymede.hub.org> References: <200408110930.22269.josh@agliodbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200408/87 X-Sequence-Number: 4862 On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote: > Dave, > >> 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. > > Well, unfortunately, at least 70% of the Windows users can be counted on not > to differentiate platform-specific issues from general ones. And given the > flakyness of the platform, I expect there to be continuous issues. Also, I'd > really rather not have a 25-post thread on PGSQL-SQL discussing how XP-SP3 > breaks PostgreSQL. > > While there are other possible lists we could add, the advantage of > PGSQL-WINDOWS is that it would attract a substantial portion of the new > users, which, for example, a list named PGSQL-INSTALL might not. I'm not ant-pgsql-windows, but I fear that the one thing you are trying to avoid is going to happen if we do create it ... namely, all new windows users will subscribe to that one list and post everything under the sun to it, making that one list pretty useless :( If anything, altho it might be long, let's do something like: pgsql-general-windows pgsql-novice-windows pgsql-admin-windows pgsql-sql-windows or something like that ... so that its not just the one list ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664