Re: The first dedicated PostgreSQL forum

On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 19:21 +0100, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> Le 13/11/2010 17:43, Raymond O'Donnell a écrit :
> > On 13/11/2010 03:43, Elliot Chance wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> This is my first post on the mailing list :)
> >>
> >> As of today I have started the first dedicated postgres forum at:
> >> http://forums.postgresql.com.au
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Without in any way running down the effort you've put into the above,
> > I'm just curious as to what it's meant to achieve that the mailing list
> > and wiki don't.
> >
>
> Actually, you could be quite surprised on the number of people not
> willing to use a mailing list, and ready to use web forums.
>
> Just to take an example, pgsql-fr-generale (the french general mailing
> list) is really quiet. Usually not more than 10 threads per month. But
> the french web forums (http://forums.postgresql.fr) are much much more used.

Yep and if we ever want to get Drupal developers (as an example) a forum
is the way to go. They don't like mailing lists either.

JD

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