Re: [HACKERS] Marc's initial request to start Postgres95 develop

On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

>
> On 17-Oct-99 Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>
> >> On 17-Oct-99 Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> > Does anyone have an archive of Marc's request to gather developers for
> >> > Postgres95 development? It would in the May-June, 1996 time period.
> >> >
> >> > I had it for a long time, but accidentally deleted it. Isn't there tar
> >> > file of all the Postgres95 mailing list messages somewhere? I can find
> >> > it if I can get access to an archive.
> >>
> >> Marc doesn't keep archives of his own posts? How established was the
> >> mailing list then? Was it being gated at the time? Could it be on
> >> one of the main archive sites?
> >
> > It was posted to the old postgres95 mailing list at the time Jolly ran
> > it somewhere at postgres95(at)postgres95(dot)vnet(dot)net(dot) It was before we moved
> > it over to his site. The issue is that after we switched over to a new
> > mailing list, I was going through the old postgres95 bug reports and
> > finding any valuable patches. When I was done, I deleted the file,
> > forgetting that the founding messages where in the same folder.
>
> Ahhh, I get it. My first of the group of questions wondered about Marc
> keeping archives of his own posts. I'm now guessing he doesn't. You
> (and I'm guessing many) people may think it strange but I keep archives
> of everything I've posted for the last 3-5 years (except for that hard
> drive incident I try to forget :)

Actually, I do too, except that mine appear to end around 2 years ago :(
I think that's about the time I got really into saving my messages...

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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