[GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-07 Thread Mike Cox
He wants to be in the big 8. He would like to be under the comp.databases.* domain and will not to move it to something like postgresql.*. So he seems to agree with what was my original intention, which was to make the current groups proper members of the big 8. I also offered to let him take

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Mike Cox wrote: Also, he pointed out that for those who want to get the postgresql groups when their usenet sever doesn't carry them, the solution would be to point their newsreaders to news.postgresql.org. The other point I'd like to make ... we have two mail<->gateways setup

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-07 Thread Gary L. Burnore
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 16:50:34 -0400 (AST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marc G. Fournier") wrote: >On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Mike Cox wrote: > >> Also, he pointed out that for those who want to get the postgresql >> groups when their usenet sever doesn't carry them, the solution would be >> to point their newsre

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Gary L. Burnore wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 16:50:34 -0400 (AST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marc G. Fournier") wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Mike Cox wrote: Also, he pointed out that for those who want to get the postgresql groups when their usenet sever doesn't carry them, the solution wo

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-12 Thread Woodchuck Bill
Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] berlin.de: > Uhh. My head is spinning with the complexity of this. Marc is fine with > being in the big eight official *if* the groups stay the same and it > doesn't affect the mailing list. This will just have to be a bug in the > syst

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-12 Thread Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
On Sunday, in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Mike Cox" wrote: > Also, he pointed out that for those who want to get the postgresql groups > when their usenet sever doesn't carry them, the solution would be to point > their newsreaders to news.postgresql.org. Which only confir

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-12 Thread Jeff Eckermann
--- Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which only confirms my opinion that he's a fuckwit. Evidently some of the nastiness out there on Usenet is propagating into our lists in advance of any change. __ Do you Yahoo!? Check ou

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-12 Thread Jan Wieck
On 11/7/2004 8:06 PM, Brian {Hamilton Kelly} wrote: On Sunday, in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Mike Cox" wrote: Also, he pointed out that for those who want to get the postgresql groups when their usenet sever doesn't carry them, the solution would be to point their newsreade

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Gary L. Burnore wrote: This isn't about encouraging ISP's to carry your lists. It's about fixing a problem caused by your list's gateways. A problem that you perceive, yet nobody else seems to ... very isolated problem ... of coufse, you *could* set the group to moderated on

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-13 Thread Richard_D_Levine
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Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-13 Thread Klaas
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian {Hamilton Kelly}) wrote: > newsgroups from ONE server, that of their university/employer/ISP. Since > that capability appeared in Netscape, and other browser/newsreaders, > there has been a proliferation of *really* private newsgroups, suc

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-13 Thread ru . igarashi
Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I also offered to let him take over the process as he understands gatewaying >and the details better than I. I also offered to let him create the next >RFD, and hopefully he will agree to do it if he has the time. He is the >most connected member of the postg

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-13 Thread Patrick B Kelly
If the process drags on for too long, people will start to get annoyed with the process and lose interest. I speak from experience. This hasn't dragged on too long? People aren't already annoyed? Seriously, the usenet people losing interest in this "problem" might be the best case scenario. P

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-16 Thread Wayne Brown
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Gary L. Burnore wrote: > >> This isn't about encouraging ISP's to carry your lists. It's about >> fixing a problem caused by your list's gateways. > > A problem that you perceive, yet nobody else seems to ... very isolated > p

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-16 Thread Tim Skirvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian {Hamilton Kelly}) writes: >(Personally, I blame the original authors of Netscape for incorporating a >news "reader" that could access multiple servers. Before then, most >readers of news had no option other than to read ALL their desired >newsgroups from ONE server, that

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-16 Thread Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
On Monday, in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Tim Skirvin" wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian {Hamilton Kelly}) writes: > > >(Personally, I blame the original authors of Netscape for incorporating a > >news "reader" that could access multiple servers. Before then, most >