Re: New email list for emergency communications

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On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:23:19 -0300
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > This would allow people who want to stay off the public im channels
> > to stay off but still be able to communicate with those that wish
> > to have a public jabber.postgresql.org account.
>
> I'm not sure I follow this argument. If people don't want to be
> contacted by outer people, just don't add them as contacts.
>

Well I could be wrong on this but my understanding is that not adding
them to contacts does not prevent them from trying to be contacted.

One of the major reasons people are fleeing yahoo messenger (and why I
dropped it years ago) is the amount of people sending me things like:

SBF18 36/24/36

I am entirely too old to be futzing with that. Not to mention I
am married and it was likely some man sending the message in the
first place. Instant messaging is a collaborative work tool for me. I
don't want to be contacted with:

Hey... your that postgresql dude aren't you?
Hey... can I ask you a quick autovacuum question, you work with Alvaro
right?
Hey... What does Devrim really look like, he sounds cute?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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