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From: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: Gabriele Bartolini <[email protected]>
Cc: damien clochard <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Training approval policy on pg.org
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:54:56 -0800
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> My point of view is that, as things stand currently, this is a false
> problem. Publishing of training events (contrary to what happens with
> conferences/community events) does not harm anyone if the publisher is a
> company that is considered to be reliable. Nobody gets bombed with
> emails or spam, the training events simply sit there, in a separate page.

It's not a false problem.  That policy was created in specific response
to a specific problem from a company which (as far as I know) still
exists and will return to abusing our system if we let them.

We probably want a new policy, but it needs to be one which does not
allow casual abuse.


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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com


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