As a side note ... if/when the CFV is called and those 4 are approved/rejected, that will not change what is available on news.postgresql.org, it will only improve the propogation of those 4 specific groups so that more servers around the world carry them ...
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Mike Cox wrote:
Obviously, there cannot be 21 postgresql groups in the comp.* hierarchy. Many of the 21 are not used that often, and would not be of much popularity to those on usenet.
I did a check on news.postgresql.org to see which newsgroups are the most popular and also the ones which cover the relevant postgresql topics. Most of the postgresql topics and traffic are represented in these four newsgroups:
comp.databases.postgresql.admin comp.databases.postgresql.general comp.databases.postgresql.hackers comp.databases.postgresql.sql
These are the four newsgroups that will be in the next version of the RFD. The newsgroups will be unmoderated, although the posters will be moderated at the gateway side, with those who are subscribed will see their posts make it to usenet and the mailing list.
A good way to think of this is that the subscription is a fast way to get through moderation. You have the option of not getting any emails.
For those on the news.groups who are not familiar with postgresql, join news.postgresql.org and see the groups list. You will see that making these four groups proper members of the big 8 would solve most of the usenet problems since the other groups do not have nearly the same amount of traffic.
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