Re: Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Jim Seymour wrote:

> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> Personally I think Marc should have waited awhile longer to see whether
>> the news.groups process would produce a positive vote, but that's just
>> my own $0.02.
>
> That's the way *I* would've preferred to see it handled.  Then again:
> *I* was looking forward to the pgsql discussions widely propagated in
> Usenet.   Others may not care.
>
>>                He may well have decided that that wasn't going anywhere.
>> The part of the discussion that has reached this list certainly has not
>> given one cause to think it will :-(
>
> Au contraire.  It looked to me like the general attitude was "Well,
> some wrong stuff happened, but now that they've been around as long as
> they have, where they have, maybe best to just let 'em become real."

And I see things about half way between the two of you ... "let's make
official just a few of the more active groups, and lance the rest" ... by
doing th pgsql.*, it gets them all out of the Big8 and keeps them
accessibl under one hierarchy for those that are reading them via
news.postgresql.org, and if the 4 (or was it 5) that were deemed active
enough for comp.* base the CFV, its not difficult to setup gating for
those few so that posts aren't lose there either ...

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