On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Greg Smith <g...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > The only real argument to keep some more targeted lists is for the benefit > of the people who subscribe to them, not we the faithful, so that they can > have something that isn't a firehose of messages to sort through. Is it > helpful to novices that they can subscribe to a list when they won't be > overwhelmed by traffic, and can ask questions without being too concerned > about being harassed for being newbies? Probably. Are there enough people > interesting in performance topics alone to justify a list targeted just to > them? Certainly; I was only on that list for a long time before joining any > of the others. Are the marketing oriented people subscribed only to > advocacy and maybe announce happy to avoid the rest of the lists? You bet. > > Folding, say, performance or admin into general, one idea that pops up > sometimes, doesn't help those people--now they can only get the > firehose--and it doesn't help me, either. If you can keep up with general, > whether or not the other lists are also included in that or not doesn't > really matter. Ditto for hackers and the things you might try and split out > of it. It's just going to end up with more cross posting, and the only > thing I hate more than a mailbox full of messages is discovering a chunk of > them are dupes because of that.
+1. > I might like to see, for example, a user mailing list devoted strictly to > replication/clustering work with PostgreSQL. That's another topic I think > that people are going to want to ask about more in the near future without > getting overwhelmed. But, again, that's for their benefit. I'll have to > subscribe to that, too, and in reality it will probably increase the amount > of messages I read, because people will ask stuff there that's already been > covered on other lists, and vice-versa. Yep. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
