Even more OT: Ditto machines [was: bottom / top posting]

2021-06-10 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On 2021-06-10 13:21, Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2021-06-09 14:41:47 -0700, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote: ... when paper memos were the norm ... ... before photocopiers were invented... Tom mentioned "old-timers."  Remember "Ditto" machines?  Remember the odor?  The

Re: bottom / top posting

2021-06-09 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 07:53:30PM +0200, Francisco Olarte wrote: ... properly scanning a top posted one takes much longer. Not here. I find top-posting moderately offensive, like saying "I am not going to waste time to make your reading experience better". Not here either. Top-posting

Re: bottom / top posting

2021-06-07 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
And do not get me started on the "sent from my iPhone / yahoo mail for Android / ...", above/below the megaquote in mailing lists like this. And then there's the wonderful signatures stating that there were no viruses in the outgoing message ...

Re: AWS forcing PG upgrade from v9.6 a disaster

2021-05-28 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On 2021-05-28 16:51, Ron wrote: On 5/28/21 5:06 PM, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote: On 2021-05-28 12:38, Ron wrote: On 5/28/21 1:40 PM, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote: On 2021-05-28 08:12, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 5/27/21 8:41 PM, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote: I started to

Re: AWS forcing PG upgrade from v9.6 a disaster

2021-05-28 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On 2021-05-28 12:38, Ron wrote: On 5/28/21 1:40 PM, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote: On 2021-05-28 08:12, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 5/27/21 8:41 PM, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote: I started to use PostgreSQL v7.3 in 2003 on my home Linux systems (4 at one point), gradually moving to

Re: AWS forcing PG upgrade from v9.6 a disaster

2021-05-28 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On 2021-05-28 08:12, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 5/27/21 8:41 PM, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote: I started to use PostgreSQL v7.3 in 2003 on my home Linux systems (4 at one point), gradually moving to v9.0 w/ replication in 2010.  In 2017 I moved my 20GB database to AWS/RDS, gradually

Re: How long to get a password reset ???

2021-05-27 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
nce it looks like I (now) have satisfactory access to the list (I was moderated for a few hours), I will post (in a separate thread) my PostgreSQL issue, & wait for the next full moon (26 days) for my password reset. On 2021-05-27 16:09, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 5/27/21 4:06 PM, Adrian Klav

How long to get a password reset ???

2021-05-27 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
I have a continuous log feed from my mail server, showing that I've received list eMail to the above eMail address, as recently as this morning.  Obviously, eMail is not being blocked at this end. But no responses to a password reset for the above eMail address. Sincerely, Dean

Re: Migration to PGLister - After

2017-11-20 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
My procmail filter is now: *  H ?? ^TO_pgsql-.*@(lists.)?postgresql.org On 2017-11-20 09:49, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Yep, but that is why the list-id filter is bad advice (at least for me). I filter on the list email address and it works flawlessly.