Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2513650E8A for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:44:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45016-03 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:44:49 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E42864FD64 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:44:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m63Jijft006507; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:44:45 -0400 (EDT) To: "Joshua D. Drake" cc: Robert Treat , pgsql-www@postgresql.org, rod@iol.ie Subject: Re: Proposal to remove some mailing lists In-reply-to: <1215112207.6936.47.camel@jd-laptop> References: <200807021849.03869.peter_e@gmx.net> <200807031302.16464.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> <1215106061.6936.26.camel@jd-laptop> <200807031507.12705.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> <1215112207.6936.47.camel@jd-laptop> Comments: In-reply-to "Joshua D. Drake" message dated "Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:10:07 -0700" Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:44:45 -0400 Message-ID: <6506.1215114285@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200807/23 X-Sequence-Number: 15453 "Joshua D. Drake" writes: > I do not believe it is wise to dump a bunch of people on general > regardless of the low traffic of other lists. General is entirely too > active. Well, there's a tradeoff to be made between having a few busy lists and having a lot of low-traffic ones. The latter is hardly nirvana, since you have the problems of fragmented discussions (or else a lot of cross-posting) as well as a greatly increased risk of misplaced postings. I think the general feeling (at least at the developer meeting where this was discussed) is that we've erred too far in the second direction and need to pull back a bit. regards, tom lane