Re: State of our hosting page

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 This is out of date: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 How do we remove companies whose information is obsolete?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. :)

-selena

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