On 11/21/2017 12:02 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
I'm not sure I believe it. People reading any database-oriented mailing
list are going to be pretty tech-savvy, I'd think.
Not to burn bytes but I think your view is narrow on this one. I am
tech-savvy although I am certainly not a hacker. The only reason I had
any idea how to deal with the mailing list debacle is because I come
from a Unix sysadmin background. If you take someone who is a data
analyst, real DBA (think MSSQL but happens to have PostgreSQL
somewhere), or god forbid a newcomer who's only exposure to mailing
lists is Slack? Then you have a whole slew of people that know literally
nothing of mailing lists except that they hit their filters and now they
don't. Then let's also remember the lazy factor.
Thanks,
JD
regards, tom lane
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