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From: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Gavin M. Roy <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:04:05 -0300 (ADT)
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Gavin M. Roy wrote:

> Don't ya think pgsql-sql-windows  is a bit overkill?  It's not like pg's 
> behavior re sql changes on windows.

hey, I'm just throwing out suggestions :)  and .. agreed, that one would 
be overkill ...


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