On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:36:23AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: <snip> > > Funny you should mention PHP. I talked to Rasmus about the email volume > when I first met him in the fall. He said the volume of email is so > great that just reading the subject lines takes a long time. > > We aren't there yet, but we are heading in that direction. One thing > some of us have done are to take full-time jobs with PostgreSQL so we > can handle the increased load. Second, I have started to skip emails > with subjects that contain obvious questions, relying on other users to > answer these. When several people post on the easy question, I start to > suspect there is some issue there and start reading. > This could eventually be handled the way they do with Usenet lists. When the volume finally gets too high, split the lists into more specialized sub-lists. (Though obviously you want to continue to improve the docs as well.) The busiest list I was ever on was the debian-help list. This one might be even busier. Paul
