Re: State of our hosting page

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)chesnok(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)chesnok(dot)com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)chesnok(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)chesnok(dot)com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> > This is out of date:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_hosting/
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Also, compared to the PostGIS list, our list seems oddly corporate and
>>>>>>> > lacking:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostGISHosters
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Perhaps the solution is to start a wiki page?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The page on the website is dynamically generated and can easily be
>>>>>>> added to by hosters or others. I don't see how moving to a wiki page
>>>>>>> would make it any more up to date than the current page could be - and
>>>>>>> it has the downside of moving yet another page onto the wiki which has
>>>>>>> very a poor page rank in Google.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do we remove companies whose information is obsolete?
>>>>>
>>>>> Email pgsql-www, or if you want to work on it for more than a one-off
>>>>> update, we can give you access to the admin interface.
>>>>
>>>> In the specific case of Selena, she already has that access, since
>>>> she's a "web slave".
>>>>
>>>> As for the original question, there was an idea years ago to have the
>>>> system send an emali to the companies at regular interval asking them
>>>> to reconfirm their information. It got as far as a field in the
>>>> database, which was migraed onto the new website as well I believe.
>>>> But the actual reconfirmation process hasn't been implemented yet...
>>>
>>> Oh, that's a good idea. :)
>>
>> Good enough that you will provide a patch? ;)
>
>
> I could -- I probably need some information about how to send email
> through pg infra. :)

There are some other examples, look at eg tools/moderation (sends the
moderation reports). That's probably the closest thing, as it sends
reports from a cronjob which seems to align with what we'd want here.

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