RE: mailing list - Mailing list pgsql-general

Is there a news-server to connect to? My company has none, yet.

/Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]
Sent: den 5 december 2000 14:02
To: Larry Rosenman
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] mailing list



In fact, there are even more then that:

comp.databases.postgresql.admin 0000002519 0000002432 y
comp.databases.postgresql.announce 0000000301 0000000301 y
comp.databases.postgresql.bugs 0000001111 0000001110 y
comp.databases.postgresql.docs 0000001187 0000001178 y
comp.databases.postgresql.general 0000014613 0000013194 y
comp.databases.postgresql.hackers 0000022503 0000022493 y
comp.databases.postgresql.interfaces 0000004810 0000004810 y
comp.databases.postgresql.patches 0000001454 0000001419 y
comp.databases.postgresql.ports 0000002313 0000002268 y
comp.databases.postgresql.questions 0000003657 0000003655 y
comp.databases.postgresql.sql 0000004843 0000004663 y
comp.databases.postgresql.committers 0000004750 0000004242 y
comp.databases.postgresql.mirrors 0000000002 0000000002 y
comp.databases.postgresql.novice 0000001072 0000000963 y
comp.databases.postgresql.hackers.fmgr 0000000000 0000000001 y
comp.databases.postgresql.hackers.oo 0000000017 0000000017 y
comp.databases.postgresql.hackers.smgr 0000000000 0000000001 y
comp.databases.postgresql.hackers.wal 0000000000 0000000001 y
comp.databases.postgresql.interfaces.php 0000000112 0000000093 y

and all the lists are gated between them local to the lists themselves,
and I monitor them to make sure that they are still working ...

... *and* there has always been an open offer for any sites that want to
feed directly from the source ...

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Larry Rosenman wrote:

> * Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> [001205 05:18]:
> > * Peter Maas <pm@mrinfo.de> [001205 02:31] wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > this mailing list has lots of traffic (about 50 messages a day).
> > > Wouldn't it be more convenient to turn it into a news group? I have
> > > never seen a postgresQL news group on Usenet. It's really a hassle
> > > to move all messages in pgsql-general to a separate folder or to
> > > cut and paste when replying to a message within a digest. What do
> > > you think?
> >
> > Er, there's a lot of utilities for managing mailing lists, procmail
> > on UNIX and a boatload of clients for Windows have the ability to
> > route mail based on email headers to seperate inboxes.
> >
> > Also, this has been brought up before and I'm pretty sure the
> > concensus was that usenet attracts a lot of spam to its users.
> >
> AND, there is already a NewsGroup:
>
> comp.databases.postgresql.general 0000010647 0000009863 y
> comp.databases.postgresql.hackers 0000003422 0000003423 y
> comp.databases.postgresql.admin 0000000741 0000000704 y
> comp.databases.postgresql.novice 0000000856 0000000818 y
> comp.databases.postgresql.committers 0000004057 0000003818 y
> comp.databases.postgresql.questions 0000000130 0000000130 y
> comp.databases.postgresql.docs 0000000211 0000000206 y
> comp.databases.postgresql.ports 0000000381 0000000369 y
>
> LER
> > --
> > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
> --
> Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
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>

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