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Subject: Re: PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:11:20 +0100
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Thread-Topic: [pgsql-www] PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list?
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From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
To: "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>,
	"PostgreSQL www" <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]=20
> Sent: 11 August 2004 17:04
> To: Dave Page; PostgreSQL www
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list?
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> Dave,
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> > Are you really expecting that many platform specific=20
> questions? With a=20
> > separate list I can already see the confusion as users get bounced=20
> > onto another list because their question is slightly more of a=20
> > platform issue, or actually an SQL issue.
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> So far, I'm seeing a lot of them.   This could me because the=20
> Win port is=20
> 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=20
> online community by at least 1000 subscribers, if not 5 times=20
> that.  My experience with other projects (like=20
> OpenOffice.org) showed that when a mailing list gets too big=20
> (somewhere between 60 and 100 posts a day) it becomes=20
> prohibitive for the=20
> entry-level user as a support mechanism.   Some people have=20
> yahoo accounts,=20
> 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.

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> So it's as much wanting to have another list of any kind as=20
> having a windows-specific list.

Yup :-)

Regards, Dave.