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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Martin Marques <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] One line new items
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 13:12:55 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4ef8da60b94975516292e525f23165f@localhost>

Martin Marques wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:03:26 -0700, "Joshua D. Drake" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > It is obnoxious to have PR trolls offer only a one liner with a link to
> > another website without any context to the content beyond the title.
> 
> Bruce said he was in favor of a one line description, so I guess you two think the same about this. :-D

I was assuming the one-liner was actually a summary.  If this is the
item Joshua saw, he is right, it isn't a summary:

	http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.554

I do prefer one-line summaries of press releases because the press
release usually has the interesting information so buried in the text.

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