Re: Opinions on Usenet ...

gevik@xs4all.nl ("Gevik Babakhani") writes:

>Maybe it is me but, I am trying to send a posting regarding a solution
>proposal for a TODO item.
>My posting has a .tgz attachment but it seems that it never arives at
>hackers list! 
>This is very frustrating. I even ask Bruce for help.

how big is the message? *raised eyebrow*   depending on size, it might get
caught up in the queue to be approved ... the only other possibility is that
the anti-virus or anti-spam checkers are picking it up ...

what i'd recommend is putting it up on a URL and posting the URL so that ppl
can download it ... 


>-----Original Message-----
>From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
>[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier
>Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:24 PM
>To: Gevik Babakhani
>Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Opinions on Usenet ...

>On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Gevik Babakhani wrote:

>> I was wondering if there is a better solution than mailing lists.
>> My experience is that mailing lists are somewat combersome to use.
>> Especially when your postings do not arrive!

>When they don't arrive? *raised eyebrow*  You having a problem? :(

>I don't know about everyone else, but my personal preference for mailing
>lists is due to the lack of spam that gets to them, something that you can't
>really do easily on Usenet ...

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