Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary

2009-01-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Scott Marlowe escribió: In this thread getting a bounce from advocacy won't bother me too much. Having hundreds ot bounce messages in a busy thread, would be much much worse. Yup. I wonder, if all the mailing lists are run by the same software, wouldn't it be easy enough to have a kind of

[GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary

2009-01-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, It is now 2009 and time for a, Thanks for all the laughs 2008! 2008 was the year that PgUS spent getting its feet under itself. We formed our board, filed all of our legally required paperwork, paid a lot of money to attorneys, held elections and even managed to have some fun by working

Re: [GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary

2009-01-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hello, It is now 2009 and time for a, Thanks for all the laughs 2008! That's all great, congratulations. In the future please do not spam multiple lists with the same message. Or rather, if you want the message to appear in more than one list, please CC them all in a

Re: [GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary

2009-01-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 18:34 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hello, It is now 2009 and time for a, Thanks for all the laughs 2008! That's all great, congratulations. In the future please do not spam multiple lists with the same message. Or rather, if you want the

Re: [GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary

2009-01-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 18:34 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: In the future please do not spam multiple lists with the same message. Or rather, if you want the message to appear in more than one list, please CC them all in a single message instead of sending one message

Re: [GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary

2009-01-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 20:18 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Cross posting is not necessarily bad; in fact it's regarded to be less annoying than multiposting, which is what you did. For argumentation, see here http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html#why (If you want it to be even

Re: [GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary

2009-01-12 Thread Gregory Stark
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 18:34 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: In the future please do not spam multiple lists with the same message. Or rather, if you want the message to appear in more than one list, please CC them all

Re: [GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary

2009-01-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Gregory Stark wrote: Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: Cross posting is not necessarily bad; in fact it's regarded to be less annoying than multiposting, which is what you did. For argumentation, see here http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html#why Well

Re: [GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary

2009-01-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Gregory Stark wrote: Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: (If you want it to be even more pain-free, add a Reply-To: pgsql-advocacy header or some such.) Yeah, actually that doesn't work. Hmm, it doesn't work how? I admit I haven't tried it, so

Re: [GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary

2009-01-12 Thread Gregory Stark
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: Gregory Stark wrote: Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: Well cross-posting is especially annoying on subscriber-only moderated lists such as ours. Anyone who follows up to an email who isn't subscribed to all the lists will

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary

2009-01-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Gregory Stark wrote: Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: Gregory Stark wrote: Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: Well cross-posting is especially annoying on subscriber-only moderated lists such as ours. Anyone who follows up to an email who isn't

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary

2009-01-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: Gregory Stark wrote: Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: Gregory Stark wrote: Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: Well cross-posting is especially annoying on subscriber-only