On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 19:21 +0100, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > Le 13/11/2010 17:43, Raymond O'Donnell a Ãcrit : > > 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 -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general