Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DF12E0047 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:21:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 77663-01 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:21:46 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1DA2E0051 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:21:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so611761nfh.23 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.85.20 with SMTP id n20mr1136596ybl.28.1206048103760; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.96.5 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <937d27e10803201421h35db766bh9fecb372c95d3ebb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:21:43 +0000 From: "Dave Page" To: "Alvaro Herrera" Subject: Re: pgsql-committers list is misconfigured Cc: w^3 In-Reply-To: <20080320192522.GF6235@alvh.no-ip.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080320192522.GF6235@alvh.no-ip.org> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/422 X-Sequence-Number: 14541 On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Also, I sent an email with a fake @pgfoundry.org address this morning, > and it passed without requiring moderator approval. Also, I added a > X-No-Archive header to avoid having the test message appearing on the > archives, but to no effect -- the message is there all right: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-03/msg00393.php I'm not sure that we actually honour that header. > I think the idea here is that any pgfoundry.org address passes through > unmolested to allow the pgfoundry projects to publish their changes to > pgsql-committers. I think this is a mistake, and others have vouched > against this idea too (most notably Peter Eisentraut.) No, this is entirely intentional. > Finally, and what prompted this test message, was the fact that Heikki > committed a patch this morning and his message got stuck in the > moderation queue. I wonder how smart it is to be letting @pgfoundry.org > mails unchecked, but have @postgresql.org addresses filtered ... ?? We only add postgresql.org addresses very occasionally, but pgFoundry committers may be added much more frequently and without our knowledge. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL UK 2008 Conference: http://www.postgresql.org.uk