Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1juJ5b-0007gA-LI for pgsql-www@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:15:03 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1juJ5a-0000x8-KD for pgsql-www@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:15:02 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1juJ5a-0000x1-F1 for pgsql-www@lists.postgresql.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:15:02 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1juJ5Y-0005nR-Jj for pgsql-www@lists.postgresql.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:15:01 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 06BHEtjO2394096; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:14:55 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Magnus Hagander cc: Stephen Frost , Alvaro Herrera , Andres Freund , Tatsuo Ishii , Dave Page , Dean Rasheed , PostgreSQL WWW Subject: Re: Policy on cross-posting to multiple lists In-reply-to: References: <201901111833.hj64gsinrug7@alvherre.pgsql> <30749.1547241061@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20200522174838.GT3418@tamriel.snowman.net> <5006.1590174250@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Magnus Hagander message dated "Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:51:59 +0200" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2394094.1594487695.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:14:55 -0400 Message-ID: <2394095.1594487695@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk Magnus Hagander writes: > I haven't (yet) reconfigured any lists. But right now all our general lists > have policy "allow". Should we more or less change all our public lists to > be "moderate"? The only case that might be a bad idea IMO is cross-posts between pgsql-bugs and other lists. I could personally do without that case too, but we have done it often in the past (and I think there's at least one such thread active right now). regards, tom lane