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* Approval of duplicate message ids
@ 2013-01-27 18:03 Tom Lane <[email protected]>
2013-01-30 19:42 ` Re: Approval of duplicate message ids Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2013-01-27 18:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-www
Last night, somebody seems to approved a bucketload of duplicate
messages to pgsql-general, which judging from their headers were all
injected by the same mail-agent fart at deltacom.com a couple of days
ago. I know that the mail list software recognized these as duplicates,
because back when it happened I got bounces related to the ones that had
originally been from me. But apparently, nonetheless they went into the
moderation queue and somebody whose sense of deja vu wasn't strong
enough eventually approved them.
Why is that? Why aren't duplicate messageids/checksums rejected out of
hand? Or at least clearly flagged to the moderators as something they
should almost certainly reject not approve?
[ looks a bit closer... ] Also, it might be a good idea to summarily
block mail.deltacom.com until they fix their problem, because it looks
like there was a second batch of dups submitted yesterday.
regards, tom lane
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* Re: Approval of duplicate message ids
2013-01-27 18:03 Approval of duplicate message ids Tom Lane <[email protected]>
@ 2013-01-30 19:42 ` Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
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From: Alvaro Herrera @ 2013-01-30 19:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www
Tom Lane wrote:
> Last night, somebody seems to approved a bucketload of duplicate
> messages to pgsql-general, which judging from their headers were all
> injected by the same mail-agent fart at deltacom.com a couple of days
> ago. I know that the mail list software recognized these as duplicates,
> because back when it happened I got bounces related to the ones that had
> originally been from me. But apparently, nonetheless they went into the
> moderation queue and somebody whose sense of deja vu wasn't strong
> enough eventually approved them.
Yeah, apparently a moderator messed up.
I removed the deltacom.com subscriber the day you reported it. (I
forgot to reply here, sorry.)
> Why is that? Why aren't duplicate messageids/checksums rejected out of
> hand? Or at least clearly flagged to the moderators as something they
> should almost certainly reject not approve?
I don't think there's any reason why we don't reject duplicates. I just
copied the setting from the older system without thinking very much
about it.
> [ looks a bit closer... ] Also, it might be a good idea to summarily
> block mail.deltacom.com until they fix their problem, because it looks
> like there was a second batch of dups submitted yesterday.
Not sure about this. If we see a problem again, I will look into that.
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