Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA23A2E006E for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:05:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 80559-05-2 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:04:50 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96BBF2E0051 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:04:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id m2OJ4df07297; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:04:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200803241904.m2OJ4df07297@momjian.us> Subject: Re: New email list for emergency communications In-Reply-To: <47E7F825.9020902@kaltenbrunner.cc> To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:04:39 -0400 (EDT) CC: Andrew Sullivan , pgsql-www@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (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: 200803/564 X-Sequence-Number: 14683 Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > > > > Right now, when email is down, I just start IM'ing people. A more > > structured system would help me. > > Some people would say a more structured approach to patch/bug tracking > would help them (but maybe not help you) ;-) > Getting you sent the alerts too is simple to do - but the question is > more of what value that information would be for you ? When email was down this past week, I had no idea if the problem was known and who was working on it. I envisioned something like the emergency broadcast system in the USA that sends out an alerts and allows communication to continue while community email is down. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +