On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
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>> If anything, the policy for -announce ought to be *more* restrictive
>> than for the news ticker. We already have sysadmins who refuse to
>> subscribe to -announce because there's too much dreck in it, and as a
>> result don't know about security releases.
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> Seriously? There were 12 posts to pgsql-announce last month. TWELVE.
Yes. 144 mails / year. (Though you should deduct the 4 PWNs from that,
so it's really 8 that month, or 96 / year). That goes for a total of
about 2.5 million emails.
A fair amount if advertisements, but we *do* have a more restrictive
policy for -anounce in reality,it seems, even if we haven't really
written it down. Because I'm fairly sure there's more of those on the
website.
>> I hate to abuse a equine corpse, but maybe we should have a
>> releases-only feed (mail and rss), and then we can be fairly liberal
>> about what we let on the general -announce?
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> I'm not inclined to have us jump through any hoops for sysadmins
> who can't be bothered to subscribe to such a low-volume list.
There's a point to that, but flipping the coin it's also pretty bad
that we don't provide any way to get email notifications of new
releases without also receiving advertisements for third party
commercial products.
(you can get it by subscribing to the versions rss feed of course, but
you get no details there)
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