Re: New Portal in Place, DNS switched ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...
Date
Msg-id 24253.1041817371@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Responses Re: New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
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Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 18:05, Dave Page wrote:
>> Don't get me wrong, I personnally would prefer to remove them, however
>> unless we get suitable corporate sponsorship the servers still have to
>> be paid for somehow.

> Granted. I'm just trying to point out that putting ads on our webspace
> is a pretty serious problem. If that's the *only* way to keep
> postgresql.org, then so be it -- but perhaps there's another way to get
> the necessary funds, as Gavin suggested

I'm with Neil and Gavin on this: let's think about whether there's
another way to finance the website.  Perhaps there isn't, but let's
at least take a hard look at it.

Marc has put a *lot* of his own money into supporting the Postgres
servers over the years.  Maybe it's time for the rest of us to step up.
        regards, tom lane


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