On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> writes: > > On 11/21/2017 11:42 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > >> I am not sure if that is sarcasm but I think the reason is pretty self > >> explanatory. -Hackers have all the people that understand how all this > >> works, -general has all the people that don't. > > > rotfl, and ain't that the truth. > > I'm not sure I believe it. People reading any database-oriented mailing > list are going to be pretty tech-savvy, I'd think. > The ones on hackers probably more so. However, I'd personally guess more that we have significantly more "casual users" on some of those lists, like -admin. If you subscribe to -hackers or similar lists, you have already passed a bar of caring pretty deeply about the postgresql project. So you're a lot less likely to be one of the users who just blackholed emails, to have them suddenly reappear. For -admin you might subscribe to ask one or two questions and not really care about the rest. You can do that for hackers too of course, but I would guess it's a lot less likely. -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>
