[GENERAL] ALERT This mailing list may be voted into a newsgroup

2004-11-07 Thread Mike Cox
Andy M wrote: > ALERT > > There is a person by the name of Mike Cox who's trying > to turn this mailing list into a Big-8 newsgroup. No, I'm trying to get teh postgresql groups which are already ON usenet to follow proper usenet guidelines. In order to be under the comp.* hierarchy the server

Re: [GENERAL] ALERT This mailing list may be voted into a newsgroup

2004-11-07 Thread edward ohare
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:42:40 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy M) wrote: >ALERT > >There is a person by the name of Mike Cox who's trying >to turn this mailing list into a Big-8 newsgroup. Many >of you know that this and most of the other postresql >mailing lists are already gated to Google Grou

Re: [GENERAL] ALERT This mailing list may be voted into a newsgroup

2004-11-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Steve Atkins wrote: There may be significant pressure to change the gateway to a two-way gateway, sending all usenet posts to the mailing list, as part of the "doing the paperwork" process. That may cause problems. On the other hand without the full two-way gateway there's a

Re: [GENERAL] ALERT This mailing list may be voted into a newsgroup

2004-11-05 Thread Steve Atkins
(All as I understand it. If Marc or someone else who's involved wants to correct and clarify it'd be appreciated.) This mailing list is already gatewayed to comp.databases.postgresql.general (that's where the spammers harvest your email address if you post to the list). This is nothing new. It ha

[GENERAL] ALERT This mailing list may be voted into a newsgroup

2004-11-05 Thread Andy M
ALERT There is a person by the name of Mike Cox who's trying to turn this mailing list into a Big-8 newsgroup. Many of you know that this and most of the other postresql mailing lists are already gated to Google Groups and a small number of private news servers. If Mike Cox succeeds, this list wil