Re: Using Postgres as an alias

[Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>]

On 9/29/2007 7:22 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> - --On Saturday, September 29, 2007 17:47:21 -0400 Jan Wieck
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> > I just want to know where the majority stands on Postgre. Because if the
> > majority says we should not accept it, then I can add some code to the IRC
> > bot to jump down the throat of ... er ... let me rephrase that ... politely
> > point out that Postgre is NOT an accepted name of the project, whenever
> > someone new to the channel is asking a Postgre related question. And it would
> > also ask for everyone to correct it wherever there is a chance (I do admit
> > that during the first meeting with a new customer isn't really a good chance).
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> > But if instead, the majority thinks we should gallantly overlook the use of
> > Postgre and act as if the person had accidentally made a typing error meaning
> > Postgres indeed, we defacto do accept Postgre and should document it that way.
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> > Can't have it both ways.
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> If we want 'rude and ignorant that might push ppl away', go with the former ... 
> myself, I'm in the latter group ...

Just because you cannot imagine that correcting someone can be done in a 
polite way doesn't mean that insisting on Postgre not being an accepted 
alias is necessarily rude and ignorant by definition.


Jan

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