X-Original-To: pgsql-admin-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F8453767 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 02:11:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 84431-06 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 05:11:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from news.hub.org (news.hub.org [200.46.204.72]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C5775374F for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 02:11:20 -0300 (ADT) Received: from news.hub.org (news.hub.org [200.46.204.72]) by news.hub.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j445BJMb086082 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 05:11:20 GMT (envelope-from news@news.hub.org) Received: (from news@localhost) by news.hub.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j444o4ZA083024 for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Wed, 4 May 2005 04:50:04 GMT (envelope-from news) From: Christopher Browne X-Newsgroups: pgsql.admin Subject: Re: REMOVE Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 23:52:12 -0400 Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <4277A41B.4010606@tissat.es> <20050503181521.GB12359@dcc.uchile.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org X-message-flag: Outlook is rather hackable, isn't it? X-Home-Page: http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/ X-Affero: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=cbbrowne User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:p0UriL4KK+GtTvOGiSGETec7y5A= To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Archive-Number: 200505/37 X-Sequence-Number: 17466 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl (Alvaro Herrera) wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:17:31PM +0200, Stephen Kennedy wrote: > >> An ex-workmate had forwarded his mail to our group so we could deal with >> work-related stuff, and so we received all of his >> mailing list stuff as well. >> This option had not occurred to me. > > That is so annoying :-( Specially when the receiving account is no > longer available -- the list owner starts getting bounces from an > account he can't unsubscribe, and it's hard to track down who of the > whole list is forwarding to the bogus account. I wouldn't be shocked to see this happen with my @acm.org address at some point. I wind up forwarding any messages I want to send via the NNTP gateway, as it appears that mail that I send with the @acm.org address as email just plain disappears somewhere between my machine at home and the mail server at postgresql.org. Evidently the mismatch between that and the domain it then comes out of (sympatico.ca) causes someone to drop it on the floor. I have correspondingly little confidence that an attempt to send email to shut off messages would actually work. So while I can chuckle at the "idiots," it may not require that for unsubscribe attempts not to work... -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="gmail.com" in name ^ "@" ^ tld;; http://linuxdatabases.info/info/slony.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #186. "I will not devise any scheme in which Part A consists of tricking the hero into unwittingly helping me and Part B consists of laughing at him then leaving him to his own devices."