Re: info about regional mailing lists

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Robert Treat wrote:

> On Saturday 22 October 2005 13:38, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> there is no information about how to subscribe to regional mailing lists,
>> for example 'pgsql-ru-general'. Any chance it will be added to
>> http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe
>>
>
> The problem is that not all of the regional lists are hosted through
> postgresql.org, so for some it would be tricky to make this work.  I think
> that's why we link to an archive patch for each of those lists, which then
> have instructions for how to subscribe to each list.

I see your arguments, but what's wrong to add those mailing lists which are
hosted through  postgresql.org and/or add link to page with information
about other lists.

>
> We could add the postgresql.org lists to the subscribe page though that might
> be more disruptive since some lists would be missing. If we did I could
> foresee the user groups wanting to be added as well, though that starts to
> feel like being more clutter than helpful, especially since all of these
> lists would not be helpful to most people. Anyone else feel strongly that we
> need to add them?

Just  specify directly that this page is for postgresql.org lists and
for other lists see separate page.


     Regards,
         Oleg
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