Re: Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

gburnore@databasix.com ("Gary L. Burnore") wrote in
news:6.1.1.1.2.20041123160436.03a25748@popd.databasix.com:

> At 03:44 PM 11/23/2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>>Did you warn the proponent of comp.databases.postgresql.* that you
>>>were going to do this?  Did you read any of the arguments for and
>>>against a completely separate hierarchy that were posted to the RFD
>>>thread in news.groups?
>>
>>Interesting point. What did come of all the arguments? These news
>>server changes seem to be fairly arbitrary and one lined. Perhaps this
>>should be taken up as a whole?
>
> Setting this up outside of the comp. groups tells everyone you want to
> be more like microsoft.* and less like major databases.  Moreover, it
> means less propagation since not all servers will carry them.

And if he plans on having *2* newsgroups for each list (one in comp.* and
one in pgsql.*) then the credibility of his hierarchy will go further down
the drain.

> So much for working out the problems.

No further comment.

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Bill