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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:11:20 +0100
Message-ID: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E41A76CB@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk> (raw)

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 11 August 2004 17:04
> To: Dave Page; PostgreSQL www
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list?
> 
> 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.

I'm seeing quite a few, but they are pretty much all installer and a few
initdb issues, all of which we will hopefully iron out. I'm not on
-general or -novice though, so I may be missing a whole heap of traffic
that you're not.

> 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?

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.

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

Yup :-)

Regards, Dave.

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