Re: news ticker Services Policy -- time for a change?

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 10:06 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> There's a point to that, but flipping the coin it's also pretty bad
>> that we don't provide any way to get email notifications of new
>> releases without also receiving advertisements for third party
>> commercial products.
>
> Right, and we also don't have a commercial-free RSS feed about release
> announcements. It's really quite terrible.
>
> I suspect one side-effect would be that if we do create more limited
> release announcement channels (email and/or RSS), no one will subscribe
> to the advertisements anymore.

This has, IIRC, been one of the largest objections against this in the past.

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