Re: List traffic

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, jd@commandprompt.com, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-05-15T06:38:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, 15 May 2010, Jaime Casanova wrote:

> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
>>
>> And IMHO, that is as much a fault of the 'old timers' on the lists as the
>> newbies ... if nobody redirects / loosely enforces the mandates of the
>> various lists, newbies aren't going to learn to post to more appropriate
>> ones ...
>>
>
> oh! yeah! that's easy... you say: hey maybe that list is better for
> your question... and suddenly you're a piece of crap that should never
> answer a mail
>
> most people are not prepared to understand the concept of more than
> one list for project...

Apparently you don't use very many large projects ... FreeBSD has 20+ 
lists, dedicated to various aspects of both end user and developer ... I 
imagine Linux has *as many if not more* ... MySQL, if memory servers, has 
a half dozen or more ... etc ...

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