Re: List removals

Hi,

On 2017-12-03 16:47:58 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> Now that the migration to pglister is well on its way, I think it's past
> time to start thinking about the lists that we *aren't* going to migrate
> (and, instead, will let die off when mj2 goes away).
> 
> First off, let's discuss the lists which have not had even one email
> in the past year (excluding PUGs):
> 
>  pgsql-benchmarks    | Discussion of PostgreSQL and benchmarks.
>  pgsql-chat          | General chit-chat.
>  pgsql-cygwin        | Former discussion of PostgreSQL under cygwin.
>  pgsql-hackers-pitr  | Former discussion related to the PITR feature.
>  pgsql-hackers-win32 | Former discussion of issues relating to Win32
>  pgsql-it-generale   | Italian Developer Community General Discussions
>  pgsql-nl-algemeen   | Dutch PostgreSQL Community
>  pgsql-patches       | Obsolete list for posting patches to the PostgreSQL
>  pgsql-ports         | Former discussion about porting PostgreSQL
>  pgsql-rrreviewers   | Round Robin Review during commitfests
>  pgsql-testers       | For active testers of PostgreSQL Alphas and Betas
> 
> Then there are a few other lists that are basically dead:
> 
>  pgsql-cluster-hackers | Discussion of replication/clustering features
>  pgsql-php             | Using PostgreSQL with PHP.
>  pgsql-students        | Google's Summer of Code students
> 
> Barring serious objections/reasons as to why these lists should continue
> to exist, I'm planning to mark them as inactive tomorrow.  The archives
> for them will continue to be active but the lists themselves will no
> longer function.  Again, these lists have had zero traffic for the past
> year (or more), or very little traffic that has been either spam or,
> essentially, "ask on this other list."
> 
> We can always bring a list back if there's a really good reason to, of
> course.

How about just redirecting some of them to more appropriate lists
instead?

Greetings,

Andres Freund