As it happens I've been carrying around the data for that original forum that I opened up for folks to play with. It's still at birdnotes.net. It's normally turned off but I resurrected it, what the heck.
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Rusty Brooks was the first respondent, answering my November 8th 1999 question on the same day. In fact, he and I bullshit in two or three short threads that day.
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Roberto didn't show up until Jnauary 24th, 2000. Guess he wanted to wait and see if my machine would survive the Great Y2K Panic before investing any energy into this.
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<a href="http://birdnotes.net/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=PostgreSQL%20ACS%20Port">Here's the URL</a>, for those with too much time on their hands;