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From: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:58:21 -0300 (ADT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Josh Berkus <[email protected]> writes:
>> Yes.  I especially want to give the Win users someplace other than
>> GENERAL to go; I've unsubbed from that list due to traffic.
>
> I've got mixed feelings about this.  I agree with the fear that
> Windows-related messages might drown out the rest of the traffic ...
> but that may happen *anyway*.
>
> Based on what I've seen (and I do sub to nearly all the pg lists),
> we have too many lists, not too few.  People post into the wrong
> list all the time, because they don't know about or can't be bothered
> to subscribe to the one that their message would be most on-topic for.
> Or maybe they just don't know enough to realize that their problem
> relates to a particular area.  It's particularly bad for bug reports;
> people will send messages describing bugs or possible bugs almost
> anyplace.

'k ... as a tangent to this thread, should we look at cleaning up / 
removing some lists?  Merging a couple or something like that?

I don't find any of them get a horrendously amount of traffic compared to 
other lists I'm on, but I use a threaded mail reader too, which helps 
reduce the index size ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: [email protected]           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664

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