Re: Mailing list clarification

Hello,

There is some apparent confusion going around about the mailing lists. I
think this is my fault and thought I would try and clear it up. There
are several lists that are all about PgUS. They are:

pgus-general : This list. General discussion, let's rock, let's love
community, go to burning man, storm the towers and hunt dolphins. All
are welcome.

members(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)us : This is a member announce list. It is
moderated. It is also the list I think caused the confusion. This list
is used only to send out occasional communications to the professional
and student members. It is not a "community" list.

In short the members@ list is for general corporate communications that
are not of a discussion type nature. Discussion should happen on
pgus-general, in all its public and archived glory.

We could use pgsql-announce for that but I didn't want to spam the
global community for a notice about PgUS voting. Vote results sure but a
standard reminder? Seems like spam to the -announce list.

board : The board list. I think this is obvious.

etc...

I have also cleaned up the mailing list page on the PgUS website to help
this along: https://www.postgresql.us/mailinglists

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

On Oct 28, 2008, at 09:29, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> pgus-general : This list. General discussion, let's rock, let's love
> community, go to burning man, storm the towers and hunt dolphins.
> All are welcome.

WTF are dolphins doing in *towers*? This explains a great deal.

Best,

David

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:49:34 -0700
"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:

> On Oct 28, 2008, at 09:29, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > pgus-general : This list. General discussion, let's rock, let's
> > love community, go to burning man, storm the towers and hunt
> > dolphins. All are welcome.
>
> WTF are dolphins doing in *towers*? This explains a great deal.

MySQL never could do anything right :P

Joshua D. Drake

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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> members(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)us : This is a member announce list. It is
> moderated. It is also the list I think caused the confusion. This list
> is used only to send out occasional communications to the professional
> and student members. It is not a "community" list.
>
> In short the members@ list is for general corporate communications that
> are not of a discussion type nature. Discussion should happen on
> pgus-general, in all its public and archived glory.
>
> We could use pgsql-announce for that but I didn't want to spam the
> global community for a notice about PgUS voting. Vote results sure but a
> standard reminder? Seems like spam to the -announce list.

Wouldn't having 'announce' in the email name be clearer?

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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> members(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)us : This is a member announce list. It is
>> moderated. It is also the list I think caused the confusion. This list
>> is used only to send out occasional communications to the professional
>> and student members. It is not a "community" list.
>>
>> In short the members@ list is for general corporate communications that
>> are not of a discussion type nature. Discussion should happen on
>> pgus-general, in all its public and archived glory.
>>
>> We could use pgsql-announce for that but I didn't want to spam the
>> global community for a notice about PgUS voting. Vote results sure but a
>> standard reminder? Seems like spam to the -announce list.
>
> Wouldn't having 'announce' in the email name be clearer?

+1

(as suggested on -advocacy earlier today :)

-selena

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On Tuesday 28 October 2008 18:40:21 Selena Deckelmann wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >> members(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)us : This is a member announce list. It is
> >> moderated. It is also the list I think caused the confusion. This list
> >> is used only to send out occasional communications to the professional
> >> and student members. It is not a "community" list.
> >>
> >> In short the members@ list is for general corporate communications that
> >> are not of a discussion type nature. Discussion should happen on
> >> pgus-general, in all its public and archived glory.
> >>
> >> We could use pgsql-announce for that but I didn't want to spam the
> >> global community for a notice about PgUS voting. Vote results sure but a
> >> standard reminder? Seems like spam to the -announce list.
> >
> > Wouldn't having 'announce' in the email name be clearer?
>
> +1
>
> (as suggested on -advocacy earlier today :)
>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
{ announce(at)postgresql(dot)us}
{ discuss(at)postgresql(dot)us }
{ board(at)postgresql(dot)us }
O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o
.

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Selena Deckelmann wrote:

>>> We could use pgsql-announce for that but I didn't want to spam the
>>> global community for a notice about PgUS voting. Vote results sure but a
>>> standard reminder? Seems like spam to the -announce list.
>> Wouldn't having 'announce' in the email name be clearer?
>
> +1
>
> (as suggested on -advocacy earlier today :)

Well changing it is certainly easy enough. I am happy to oblige. I will
take care of it this week.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
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