> >>> I'd vote for reverting to the old way. Anyone serious > about hacking > >>> should be on both lists. > > > > Then why bother with two different lists? > > > > If developers need to be on both list (which I beleive they > do), and > > the focus of both lists is developers, then why not just > remove one of > > them and get rid of the problem? > > One reason might be that a lot of application developers who > develop applications or modules associated with PG, but not > the core PG code itself also lurk on -hackers, as it's by far > the best way to keep up with the status of various PG > enhancements (and also an excellent place to pick up a lot of > undocumented good practices).
Won't you learn even more good practices if you actually see the patches as well? :-P The bottom line is, I think, does the volume of mail on -patches actually make a big difference given the much higher volume on -hackers? (If you just want to skip the patches, just set up attachment filtering on the list..) //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
