Received: from magus.postgresql.org (magus.postgresql.org [87.238.57.229]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E98219F3CC for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:20:02 -0300 (ADT) Received: from 173-164-140-181-sfba.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.164.140.181] helo=fetter.org) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Sdx2m-0003BH-Du for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:20:01 +0000 Received: by fetter.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id C4B77805F3; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:19:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:19:46 -0700 From: David Fetter To: Magnus Hagander Cc: Robert Haas , Dave Page , PostgreSQL WWW , Alvaro Herrera Subject: Re: Announce mailing list approvals Message-ID: <20120611051946.GC23085@fetter.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Pg-Spam-Score: -0.9 (/) X-Archive-Number: 201206/21 X-Sequence-Number: 20715 On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 07:27:26PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Robert Haas wro= te: > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Robert Haas w= rote: > >> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Dave Page wrote: > >>> [for want of a better list...] > >>> > >>> Who keeps approving replies to messages on -announce? I've seen > >>> two today; one asking to be removed from the list, and one > >>> asking about RPMs of postgres-xc. Neither should have been > >>> approved. > >> > >> +10. > >> > >> This seems to happen constantly. =A0It's really annoying. > > > > OK, this has happened about three more times on the same thread. > > > > Here's my guess: nobody's moderating those postings. =A0Somehow, the > > rules for moderation have gotten screwed up, and posts from people > > on other PG mailing lists are just being allowed through > > willy-nilly. >=20 > That's not my guess. >=20 > My guess is that it's someone who moderates many lists, and just > checks the *contnets* of the mails. Which is perfectly on-topic for > any other list, so it gets approved. That'd be me. Mea culpa. Cheers, David. --=20 David Fetter http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate