Re: [pgsql-www] Proposal to remove some mailing lists

On Thursday 03 July 2008 13:27:41 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:02 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> > More on point, why would you seperate web developer questions from other
> > questions? And how? Not being able to connect to postgres from a
> > webserver is pretty much the same issue as not connecting from anything
> > else. Or what about someone using dbd:pg from a script, vs. someone using
> > it to write a cgi?
> >
> > *shrug*
>
> How do I do X with ORM Y and why does PostgreSQL react with Z.
>
> People on general may or may not care. People on wwwdev may.

PHP developers won't care how you would access something via activerecord any
more on a -wwwdev list than they would on -general.

>
> > I'm subscribed to both, so it doesnt affect me much, but I don't see much
> > benefit to having that list as it stands now (and the traffic is pretty
> > low anyway)
>
> I am not arguing that we should keep pgsql-php as much as the idea of
> dumping people on to general which imo is abused way to much as it is.
>

AFAICT, you are currently arguing specifically over whether pgsql-php should
be included along with the other lists in Peters proposal. If what you're
really objecting to is Peter's overall proposal that dumping people
from -ports, -cygwin, and -interfaces back onto -general is a problem, please
restate your argument in that wider scope.

--
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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