"Leyne, Sean" wrote:

> This list has 769 members with the Devel list having the same, but there
> are not 50 people who have bothered to read any of the engine code, let
> alone the 20-30 people who have actually done real work. Yet, there are
> a large number of people who will venture their opinion on subjects they
> know absolutely nothing!
>
> Life is too short to have to "fight" your way through the 50 useless
> postings to get to the 1 message which really matters.

IMHO the solution to this problem is known as "kill file", or more
politely "ignore list" or "mail filtering rules".

> Perhaps a separate list is required, with restricted postings but public
> viewing/reading.

The advantages of a killfile over just another list is, that
everybody can decide himself, whether to read also postings of
those who haven't got a complete understanding of the engine's
code but want to to contribute an opinion.

Of course I understand by now, that const-correctness is
a completely different subject when applied to DBMS engines
and any advice on this issue by contributors from other
fields are not welcome. Ahem.

Regards,
Peter Jacobi