On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 09:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Copeland <greg@copelandconsulting.net> writes:
> > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 22:20, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Simple: respond to 'em all with a one-line answer: "convince us why we
> >> should use it". The burden of proof always seems to fall on the wrong
> >> end in these discussions.
>
> > ... Now, it seems, that
> > people don't want to answer questions at all as it's bothering the
> > developers.
>
> Not at all. But rehashing issues that have been talked out repeatedly
> is starting to bug some of us ;-). Perhaps the correct "standard
> answer" is more like "this has been discussed before, please read the
> list archives".
I agree. That sounds like a much more reasonable response. In fact, if
you were to simply let the fledglings respond, it would completely take
you guys out of the loop.
Perhaps something like a Wiki or FAQ-O-Matic can be added whereby, the
user base can help maintain it? That would seemingly help take some
load off of Bruce too.
Greg