X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E07309FA2C8; Wed, 17 May 2006 14:13:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 63404-04; Wed, 17 May 2006 14:13:05 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.pha.pa.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 933209F944D; Wed, 17 May 2006 14:13:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id k4HHCtA27062; Wed, 17 May 2006 13:12:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200605171712.k4HHCtA27062@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] One line new items In-Reply-To: To: Martin Marques Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 13:12:55 -0400 (EDT) CC: "Joshua D. Drake" , PostgreSQL WWW , PostgreSQL Advocacy X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200605/89 X-Sequence-Number: 10052 Martin Marques wrote: > > On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:03:26 -0700, "Joshua D. Drake" 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. -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +