Thread: Email signature in release announcement posting

Email signature in release announcement posting

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
I want to apologize for having my signature at the bottom of the 8.2.4,
etc. release announcement.  There is no reason to mention my name,
company, and web site at the bottom of something that is supposed to
come from the community.  And I didn't even write that email --- I was
doing it for someone else.  I also didn't realize my email would be
picked up, verbatum, by web sites:
http://lwn.net/Articles/231517/

As soon as I saw the posted version I knew the signature looked odd. I
will try to remember to remove it in the future if I ever have to make
such announcements again.

--  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>          http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
http://www.enterprisedb.com
 + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +


Re: Email signature in release announcement posting

From
Andrew Dunstan
Date:
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I want to apologize for having my signature at the bottom of the 8.2.4,
> etc. release announcement.  There is no reason to mention my name,
> company, and web site at the bottom of something that is supposed to
> come from the community.  And I didn't even write that email --- I was
> doing it for someone else.  I also didn't realize my email would be
> picked up, verbatum, by web sites:
>
>     http://lwn.net/Articles/231517/
>
> As soon as I saw the posted version I knew the signature looked odd. I
> will try to remember to remove it in the future if I ever have to make
> such announcements again.
>
>   

Well, I at least was not even slightly offended. Some people are way too 
sensitive in my opinion.

cheers

andrew (Pastafarian)


Re: Email signature in release announcement posting

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
Bruce, All,

(x-posting to Advocacy, hopefully to forestall flames)

> I want to apologize for having my signature at the bottom of the 8.2.4,
> etc. release announcement.  There is no reason to mention my name,
> company, and web site at the bottom of something that is supposed to
> come from the community.  And I didn't even write that email --- I was
> doing it for someone else.  I also didn't realize my email would be
> picked up, verbatum, by web sites:
>
>     http://lwn.net/Articles/231517/
>
> As soon as I saw the posted version I knew the signature looked odd. I
> will try to remember to remove it in the future if I ever have to make
> such announcements again.

Gah. Well, we learn something every time.  I think we should create a
bruce@postgresql.org account for you just to post official notices; this will
also prevent you from accidentally using the wrong sig line (depending on
MTA); it's what I do.

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

Re: Email signature in release announcement posting

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce, All,
>
> (x-posting to Advocacy, hopefully to forestall flames)
>
> > I want to apologize for having my signature at the bottom of the 8.2.4,
> > etc. release announcement.  There is no reason to mention my name,
> > company, and web site at the bottom of something that is supposed to
> > come from the community.  And I didn't even write that email --- I was
> > doing it for someone else.  I also didn't realize my email would be
> > picked up, verbatum, by web sites:
> >
> >     http://lwn.net/Articles/231517/
> >
> > As soon as I saw the posted version I knew the signature looked odd. I
> > will try to remember to remove it in the future if I ever have to make
> > such announcements again.
>
> Gah. Well, we learn something every time.  I think we should create a
> bruce@postgresql.org account for you just to post official notices; this will

I am momjian@postgresql.org.  Yea, I could use that to post.  Never even
thought of that.

--
  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>          http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                               http://www.enterprisedb.com

  + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +