On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 01:58:03PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
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> > It seems to me they should have contact info for all their RDS users?
> >
> >
> > Yeah, that's a pretty good point :)
>
> They do, this is just a "blanket the affected people" thing.
>
> > That said, if we want to be helpful, wouldn't -announce be the
> > platform of choice?
> >
> >
> > Given how many inboxes -announce reaches, I would say a definite -1 on
> > that. The vast majority of those are not RDS users, by far.
>
> BTW, I'm assuming that such an announcement would be against Planet
> Postgres policy as well.
Uh, Planet actually has a more formal policy:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Planet_PostgreSQL#Are_commercial_posts_allowed.3F
Are commercial posts allowed?Informative entries that mention proprietary products are normallypermissible, as long as
themain entry is relevant to the PostgreSQLcommunity. But the policy specifically prohibits publication ofadvertising
inthe portion of a blog that is syndicated to the Planetfeed. It's recommended that blogs that may contain ads tag
themappropriately,to provide a feed to the Planet without those entriesincluded.
Also:
What constitutes an advertisement?The primary test here is whether the information provided would be ofsome use even to
peoplewho have no interest in the commercial productmentioned. Consider what your entry would look like if all
referencestothe product were removed. If there's no useful PostgreSQL content leftafter doing that, that post is an ad.
While it isn't an ad, when you remove the reference to the product,
there isn't anything left. I think a post would also fail on the
"relevant to the PostgreSQL community".
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