Apple Mail has not been copying the mailing list, so excuse the reposts if you got one.
Begin forwarded message: > From: Elliot Chance <elliotcha...@gmail.com> > Date: 14 November 2010 12:30:19 PM AEDT > To: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] The first dedicated PostgreSQL forum > > > On 14/11/2010, at 6:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> writes: >>> It's a shame that a forum can't act as a front-end for a mailing list, so >>> signing up to the forum actually signs you up to a mailing list (if you're >>> not already signed up), but without receiving any emails. Messages posted >>> to the forum would get sent to the list, and vice versa. >> >> That would be cool. Wonder if there's something like that out there already. > > I have no problem with this idea. Rather than trying to write a MOD to do > this you (or someone) could create a new account with the mailing list > address, then subscribe that account to all or some of the forums. Any posts > made will be send to the subscriber (which is the mailing list) with nice > URLs to reply. This could be implemented immediately. > > "Content is king." There is a huge amount of archives, and before creating > the forum I did think of ways to cleanly get all the archives into the forums > but its fraught with problems, for example to map the email users to fresh > accounts would require creating forums accounts with generic passwords or > having to contact the original mailing list posters to give them their forum > password ... messy. More importantly that information belongs to the greater > postgres community and I would have no right to simply copy it all without > permission. > > I use other mailing lists (musicbrainz.org, for example) and they work as > intended but often you want to ask a question and not get dozens of emails > coming to you about other issues. This is where forums are useful (yes, > musicbrainz has a forum of which I am a moderator) - but some people like > them and some don't, theres no reason why that has to change. > > To those who say, it won't work and therefore don't bother. To not even try > when forums are clearly one ideal alternative for the postgres community > seems silly. Even the largest forums had to start with 0 posts, I don't > expect it to take off over night but it has to start somewhere. > > The potential is only as strong as the community is willing. I understand > nobody wants to sign up to an empty forum but the forum can only grow with > support from the majority of people on this list (if they so choose.) > > Thanks to the first 4 people who did sign up, feel free to make some posts :) > >> >>> And such a system >>> would need to support cross-posting too somehow. >> >> Dunno, seems like we've been discouraging cross-posting lately anyhow. >> I wouldn't see anything wrong with forum posts only being able to go to >> one mailing list, as long as there were a forum corresponding to each >> active list. >> >> regards, tom lane >> >> -- >> Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) >> To make changes to your subscription: >> http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >
