That would be the perfect solution for us, but apparantly not for the rest of the world. Since they are offering us 4 and saying we can apply for the other 16 in 6 months, I would take that and not try to take an all or nothing attitude. More of a work with the newsgroup people then against them attitude. Personally, I will be very happy if we get approved. I switched to the newsgroup from the maillist as soon as I found out about it, and my news server doesn't carry this list so I have to access it through news.postgresql.org ""Gary L. Burnore"" <gburnore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6.1.1.1.2.20041114090455.03a5d380@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > At 01:54 AM 11/14/2004, Sim Zacks wrote: > >BTW, in Outlook Express if you are posting to the news.postgresql.org server > >it will not send a message to news.groups. So this message will not get > >there unless someone puts it there. > > > >If 4 are official and 16 are unofficial, why would that bother you? > > Because the groups already exist on many servers. Make them all legit and > gate them all. Problem solved. > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend