| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces |
| Date: | 2002-12-09 22:15:21 |
| Message-ID: | 20021209181345.M66893-100000@hub.org |
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> I tend to agree with Peter. Not that we don't need a marketing
> presence; we do (I think Great Bridge's marketing efforts are sorely
> missed). But the point he is making is that the pgsql mailing lists go
> to people who are generally unimpressed by marketing fluff. And they're
> already "sold" on PG anyway.
>
> The right way to handle this next time is to generate a PR-style
> press release to send to outside contacts, but to do our more
> traditional, technically-oriented announcement on the mailing lists.
Agreed ... we tried to do 'two-in-one' on this one and it didn't quite
work out as well as it could have ... next time, we'll go with both
methods ...
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