On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 09:31:59 -0700, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 04/05/2017 09:17 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> This has been tried a number of times. I'ts been a couple of years since >> I last saw one, but multiple people have set up forums, either mirrored >> or not. They have all died because of either lack of usage or because >> the person who did it disappeared. > >Mostly, because they did not work well and the folks on this end of the >process had to do more work to get the information necessary to answer >the question. I know I eventually stopped responding to the questions >from those sources because it was difficult to follow the information >flow. Namely you had to crawl back up to the forum to get information >and then the email thread had mix of information that made it through on >its own and some subset of information that dedicated people pulled in >from the forum. That mix depended on dedication level and time available. That's the same observation I made about list participants who subscribe through Google Groups ... they often don't [think to] make the effort to quote or attribute properly because *they* can simply look back up the thread to see what was written and by whom. This makes it difficult to follow a discussion via email, and Google's list handling is flawed - it sometimes breaks the underlying list threading [while keeping its own GUI correct], and broken threads can be hard to follow even with a decent news reader. [Postgresql lists are available through NNTP: e.g., at Gmane.org]. YMMV, George -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
