Re: postgresql-archive.org

Hi,

On 2018-08-22 23:49:54 +0100, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 2018-08-22 22:48, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2018-08-22 23:38:17 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > On 22/08/2018 21:08, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > > I kinda wonder if the postgres community shouldn't do something about
> > > > http://www.postgresql-archive.org/.  The name makes it sound somewhat
> > > > official, but it doesn't appear to be.  At least I do not know who runs
> > > > it. Does somebody else?
> > > 
> > > I understand the concern, but I don't think there is anything we can
> > > do.
> > >  Our trademark policy allows this kind of thing.
> 
> One important thing which seems to have been missed so far, is that it's
> fairly common for places to "stop doing <whatever>" if they're asked nicely
> by the OSS project they're doing it in regards to.

Huh? I explicitly suggested that as the first step?


> Caveat -> That's only if they seem to be decent operators though.  If
> they're
> known to be doing anything dodgy, that's an automatic black flag. ;)

They intercept attachement links to display adds. Pretty dubious ones,
with links to some "download manager" one time (I did not download that
one), and now to a "resume-builder". Using popunders.  So yea, this is
dodgy.

Greetings,

Andres Freund