Bruce,
> Let me tell you what one of the sales people told me, "I start Monday
> not having read email over the weekend, and I have 80 new messages, 79
> are from advocacy about some trivial topic".
Related to this, I created the "marketing-professionals" list for PostgreSQL,
a *closed* list, specifically so that Marketing/Sales/PR people from the
various PostgreSQL companies who aren't comfortable with the freewheeling
nature of public PostgreSQL lists would have a place to go. That list isn't
seeing much use, including by the EnterpriseDB guys. So if they feel put off
by the volume, they can (and should) use that list. THey're certainly not
using it right now.
Then they can use an e-mail filter on this list and only reply to stuff which
has the word "EnterpriseDB" in it.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco