Re: [GENERAL] The first dedicated PostgreSQL forum

[Fredric Fredricson]

On 11/17/2010 03:09 PM, Tony Caduto wrote:
On 11/15/2010 5:53 PM, Lee Hachadoorian wrote:
If anyone's interested, I've started accessing the postgres list through
gmane.org (along with several other mailing lists I subscribe to). It's
gives you the choice of reading the list as a threaded archive, a blog,
or through an NNTP newsreader or an RSS feed. Everyone chooses their
preferred interface, the community is not fractured by interface 
preference.


Honestly those options suck.
The mailing lists etc are fine, but they are kind of old school, 
people coming from other databases
expect a web based forum plain and simple.  To attract more users the 
forums are a GREAT idea.

Stop this ridiculous complaining about interface fracture etc .

I can tell you for SURE that many people who are not OLD SCHOOL hate 
mailing lists,  A web based forum
gives everyday users more of a chance of interacting with the community.

It would be a good idea to stop the bickering and just implement the 
forums.

Sorry if people don't like my honest answer :-)
That may be your honest opinion but some of us actually prefer mailing 
lists. I use both, for different purposes and have noticed that there 
are quite a lot of really bad forum implementations.

When I use mailing lists I filter the mail to different folders (as I 
suspect 99.9% of all mailing list users do). I always choose mail client 
where filtering is convenient. If you are not free to choose mail client 
and are stuck with a bad one I can understand if you don't appreciate 
mailing lists but for me it is far more convenient than a forum.

But you have a point that mailing lists are not for everyday users but I 
doubt that "everyday users", that find configuring an email client 
difficult, would have any reason to visit this mailing list.

Still, the best option would of course be to have both, that would give 
people choice, but I share the concern for anonymous posts spamming the 
mail lists with questions that can be answered with a simple search in 
the (excellent) documentation.

My $.02
/Fredric


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