Re: Mail delays (was: Sending the beta4 release announcement, don't approve ...)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Marc G(dot) Fournier <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Mail delays (was: Sending the beta4 release announcement, don't approve ...)
Date: 2010-08-04 16:58:01
Message-ID: 1280941034-sup-3475@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié ago 04 12:00:54 -0400 2010:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Weren't we supposed to pass through unmoderated all emails coming from
> > addresses subscribed to any of the lists?
>
> No, that'd make it very easy for spammers, not to mention destroy the
> main usefulness of the anti "unsubscribe" filters. My recollection is
> that the way that that bit actually works is that if you're subscribed
> to any of the lists, you're allowed to post to any other list as if you
> were a subscriber; we did that mainly to avoid delaying cross-posted
> mails.

Eh, that's precisely what I'm saying (or trying to).

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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