If anyone's interested, I've started accessing the postgres list through
gmane.org (along with several other mailing lists I subscribe to). It's
gives you the choice of reading the list as a threaded archive, a blog,
or through an NNTP newsreader or an RSS feed. Everyone chooses their
preferred interface, the community is not fractured by interface preference.
--Lee
On 11/15/2010 03:13 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 21:06 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>> I do think that the PostgreSQL lists are available there. And other
>> than that, they are on markmail.org, Nabble, etc. AFAIK several of
>> those allow both reading and posting. Is there actually something
>> about these interfaces that people find *missing*, or can we easily
>> solve this whole thing by more clearly telling people that these
>> options exist?
>
> Mainly I think it is the user interface and the fact that they are
> external. They don't look, act or feel like forums. Shrug. Further they
> aren't part of postgresql.org so nobody knows the level of real support
> they are going to get.
>
> JD
>
>
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Lee Hachadoorian
PhD Student, Geography
Program in Earth & Environmental Sciences
CUNY Graduate Center