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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Planet posting policy
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:25:38 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+OCxow3T9g-Cpt+B437vgCoYL+y83+LCYVw8Z42SnW3ciUB1g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+OCxow3T9g-Cpt+B437vgCoYL+y83+LCYVw8Z42SnW3ciUB1g@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:59:29AM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We currently have a strict posting policy for planet.postgresql.org
> (http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Planet_PostgreSQL), which has been
> applied in such a way that it prevents users posting anything to their
> syndicated blogs which may be remotely considered to be advertising.
> This has tripped up a number of our regular contributors in the past,
> including some senior community members who have posted technical
> content about their work which happens to be on commercial products
> around PostgreSQL.
> 
> I'd like to propose relaxing this policy (or perhaps the
> interpretation of it) to allow useful content to be posted that
> happens to be centered around commercial products, whilst being
> careful to avoid pure advertising content which we certainly do not
> want (and should continue to be posted as news or pgsql-announce
> articles).

While I am not against relaxing the rules, it would be a shame if the
new rules were more vague than the old ones.  The old rules, while
strict, were very easy to mentally filter;  I am worried more vague
rules will lead to more uncertainty and perhaps arguments/hurt feelings.

-- 
  Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>        http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                             http://enterprisedb.com

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