Re: Draft of design for the new PostgreSQL shirts - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Milen A. Radev
Subject Re: Draft of design for the new PostgreSQL shirts
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In response to Re: Draft of design for the new PostgreSQL shirts  (Susanne Ebrecht <miracee@miracee.de>)
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Susanne Ebrecht wrote:
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> How did you subscribe to this mail list without knowing our URL?
> Of course is http://www.postgresql.org a valid URL. It's our main URL.

Well I could cite you the relevant RFC but I'd rather not because the
goal is advertisement and brand recognition.

> Non computer scientist, non administrators, non geeks and other people
> usually didn't know what a DBMS is. But lots of them know what's a
> database.

And lots of them use MySQL ("The world's most popular open source
database").

PostgreSQL is not a database - except for a very broad and wrong
definition of "database". Well if the community is comfortable to play
on the MySQL's level (nothing personal, Susanne) ...

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Milen A. Radev

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