On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:36:23AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>
> Funny you should mention PHP. I talked to Rasmus about the email volume
> when I first met him in the fall. He said the volume of email is so
> great that just reading the subject lines takes a long time.
>
> We aren't there yet, but we are heading in that direction. One thing
> some of us have done are to take full-time jobs with PostgreSQL so we
> can handle the increased load. Second, I have started to skip emails
> with subjects that contain obvious questions, relying on other users to
> answer these. When several people post on the easy question, I start to
> suspect there is some issue there and start reading.
>
This could eventually be handled the way they do with Usenet lists. When
the volume finally gets too high, split the lists into more specialized
sub-lists. (Though obviously you want to continue to improve the docs as
well.)
The busiest list I was ever on was the debian-help list. This one might
be even busier.
Paul
