Re: comp.databases.postgresql.* groups and RFD

[Russ Allbery]

In news.groups, Gary L Burnore <gbur...@databasix.com> writes:
> Marc G. Fournier <scr...@hub.org> wrote:

>> In order to reduce some of the overall headaches that this whole RFD
>> process has caused, I've changed the gateway so that the mailing lists
>> are gated into a pgsql.* hierarchy and have removed the gate to the
>> comp.* hierarchy.

> This doesn't help. It only makes it worse.

Huh? You've been bitching at him for gating the groups into comp.*, and
now that he's moved them out of comp.* into his own separate hierarchy
like you asked, you're bitching at him for doing that and saying it makes
it even worse?

I don't get it.

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[Russ Allbery]

In news.groups, Gary L Burnore <gbur...@databasix.com> writes:

> I read what he posted to the list. He's not removing them, he's
> 'ALIASING' them. Posts go to both pgsql.general and
> comp.databases.postgres.general. That's worse, in my opinion.

I'm not completely sure you understand what effect this has. Note that
this will cause all new posts to show up as posted to the new hierarchy,
which means that all the traffic in the comp.* groups just went away
except for anything people are posting on news servers that elected to
carry the groups.

The aliasing is a private matter for his particular news server and
doesn't have any impact on other sites. It makes perfect sense for
backward compatibility; I would have done the same thing were I him.

[Kenneth Downs]

Gary L. Burnore wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:08:10 +0000 (UTC), Marc G. Fournier From:

> <scr...@hub.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>In order to reduce some of the overall headaches that this whole
>>RFD process has caused, I've changed the gateway so that the mailing
>>lists are gated into a pgsql.* hierarchy and have removed the gate to
>>the comp.* hierarchy.
>
> This doesn't help. It only makes it worse.
>

Well that explains why the newsgroup dried up.

All I can say is this: /* sigh */

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