Re: [GENERAL] comp.database.postgresql.*

2004-11-13 Thread Wayne Brown
Dawid Kuroczko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And now, some time ago, PostgreSQL mailing lists were gatewayed > into Big8 namespace, to help people access them by other means. > Only it was done "unoffically", i.e. not following standard procedure > for such things. It could be thought of as "hoo

Re: [GENERAL] comp.database.postgresql.*

2004-11-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Joel wrote: Mike Cox sent an email to the newsgroup news.groups last night saying he's giving up the usenet effort because of resistance here. What a shame. Marc, Should we leave this as is, or would you like someone to pick the RFD back up? I'm not in the resistance group, but

Re: [GENERAL] comp.database.postgresql.*

2004-11-11 Thread Joel
> Mike Cox sent an email to the newsgroup news.groups last night saying he's > giving up the usenet effort because of resistance here. What a shame. Marc, Should we leave this as is, or would you like someone to pick the RFD back up? (Yes, I'm saying I can volunteer. My pace would be a bit slow,

Re: [GENERAL] comp.database.postgresql.*

2004-11-11 Thread Max
> > > Honestly, people here generally don't give a hoot what the other 'big' > > databases do (which is > > I tend to look at it from complete different angle. Let's leave the > group stuff for a while and think about SQL. PostgreSQL seeks > to conform SQL standards as much as it is reasonable.

Re: [GENERAL] comp.database.postgresql.*

2004-11-11 Thread Max
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Rawnsley > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 12:26 PM > To: Pgsql General > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] comp.database.postgresql.* > > > > On Nov 11, 2004, at 1:56

Re: [GENERAL] comp.database.postgresql.*

2004-11-11 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:26:21 -0500, Andrew Rawnsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, but I think that's about as silly a statement as I've read on > this list. I have never seen > any Oracle, DB2, or Sybase materials that claim 'We're big time - we > have a legit comp. newsgroup' (that woul

Re: [GENERAL] comp.database.postgresql.*

2004-11-11 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
On Nov 11, 2004, at 1:56 PM, Max wrote: I am starting to believe that the issue behind all this fuss is an identity problem: does postgresql want to play side-by-side with the big database players and have an official, legal and legitimate newsgroup, or does it want to stay in the closet ? Max

[GENERAL] comp.database.postgresql.*

2004-11-11 Thread Max
Hi all, Mike Cox sent an email to the newsgroup news.groups last night saying he's giving up the usenet effort because of resistance here. What a shame. I can't handle all the emails of this list on my mailbox, and quite frankly I am interested in reading 10% of the emails only. Someone said earl