Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> However, I don't want this list to lose sight of the fact that *us*
> recieving 50-100 extra email/day on some list or another is a
> qualitatively different thing from a newbie signing up on NOVICE and
> immediately getting hit with 200 e-mails in the first 12 hours.
I hear you, but is it going to help much to split -novice into -novice
and -novice-windows? If we get overwhelmed with new novices, they'll
all be in the latter list and they'll *still* have an unreasonable
amount of traffic. What's more, they won't be getting any help from the
not-quite-so-novice-anymore denizens of the older list.
I think Dave's probably got the right idea: what we really need to be
looking for is a way to shift some of the support load away from the
mailing lists entirely. We're all accustomed to mailing lists as The
Way To Have A Community, but there's a limit to how far the concept
will scale.
regards, tom lane