Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:07:09 -0400 (AST)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: elein <elein@varlena.com>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>,
	Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>,
	Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>,
	"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: merging advocacy and "overview"
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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, elein wrote:

> General Bits is my way of contributing back to the community.
> It is a FREE service.   It contains articles and examples
> about PostgreSQL only.  It has about two years worth of weekly
> issues containing one to six articles in each issue.  All
> old issues are available and where possible translation has
> been done into Castellano and Portuguese.
>
> Subscriptions (donations) can be made to help offset my time.
> You get a few perks with that. But honestly, only a handful of
> people subscribe. If I were making money on this I think my
> request would be unreasonable. But I'm not.  I'll talk numbers
> with anyone nosy enough to ask :-)
>
> Most people who go to General Bits never go to my main web
> site.  The link is always published directly to the latest
> column.  (In the spirit of sunshine, General Bits is on
> vacation until January however.)
>
> Because the intent of the site is to give back to the community
> and because it has been achieving that goal I politely disagree
> with Robert Treat's interpretation of GB as something not part
> of the community as a whole.

Have to say that I'd agree, based on the above ... I know I've used it at 
least once when doing research on the whole FSM stuff ...

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