Re: The first dedicated PostgreSQL forum

One thing that makes me agree with this is the antiquated format of the digest
emails.

I hate google mail, but I love the google groups application. If postgres had a
combination online forum/google groups thing (if there is such a thing),
communication would be much improved.

Now, I KNOW that database types are conservative by nature, almost as much as
accountants. But a little change is good now and then ;-)

Dennis Gearon
From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>

To: rod(at)iol(dot)ie
Cc: Elliot Chance <elliotchance(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The first dedicated PostgreSQL forum
Message-ID: <4CDED73F(dot)90901(at)lelarge(dot)info>

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.

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Guillaume
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