Re: Quality of email postings

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Other recent postings:
>>
>> Advocacy Wiki <- This one did get a little out of hand but was quickly
>
> Quickly revolved?
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2007-08/threads.php#00039

Number of postings does not equate to long resolution. It was just an
active thread.

>> resolved in house by Dpage and Myself realizing we were cross arguing.
>> Positive result was provided by better permissions on wiki *and*
>> technical definition of requirements for sponsor page to be managed.

> The bottom line is that even though I am interested in advocacy I am
> starting to skip advocacy threads because the signal to noise ratio is
> just too low, and I now hear other feel the same way.

Not to be unkind but your advocacy efforts have always been slim or at
least as long as I can remember. Secondly, advocacy is the same now as
it was a year ago. Just because people start using the list more doesn't
make it any worse or better.

>
> See my other posting about suggestions to improve things.  Obviously I
> realize this is open source and lots of issues are going to come up, but
> the question is whether there is room for improvement and whether more
> leadership and self-policing will improve things.

Well "leadership" in this vein is a red herring unless you want to start
moderating. Self policing is something that we *all* should do better.

Joshua D. Drake


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