On Sun, October 5, 2008 18:35, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Erik" <er@xs4all.nl> writes:
>> I would like to propose a dedicated mailing list for the usage of PostgreSQL
>> in biological/biomedical application - a good name might be "pgsql-bio".
>
> Given that the amount of such traffic in the past on the postgres lists
> has been approximately zero, I can't see why we need such a list.
> Our usual rule for establishing new lists has been to split out a
> sub-topic that's taking too much space on pgsql-general, and this is
> certainly far from qualifying.
well, a specific list would address exactly that problem: to create a
communication channel for such domain-specific postgres questions as one would
not dare to come up with on a *general mailing list.
Erik Rijkers