| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RDS announcement |
| Date: | 2015-03-30 17:48:41 |
| Message-ID: | 55198C79.1060708@agliodbs.com |
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On 03/28/2015 08:17 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 3/18/15 5:03 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> What constitutes an advertisement?
>>
>> The primary test here is whether the information provided would be of
>> some use even to people who have no interest in the commercial product
>> mentioned. Consider what your entry would look like if all references to
>> the product were removed. If there's no useful PostgreSQL content left
>> after doing that, that post is an ad.
>>
>> While it isn't an ad, when you remove the reference to the product,
>> there isn't anything left. I think a post would also fail on the
>> "relevant to the PostgreSQL community".
>
> I think this just shows that that definition of advertisement is flawed.
> Under those rules, even a product recall would be an advertisement.
... except I'm not sure that the policy is *intended* to allow things
like product recalls on Planet.
--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
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