Re: Announce mailing list approvals

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 07:27:26PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> 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.  It's really annoying.
> >
> > OK, this has happened about three more times on the same thread.
> >
> > Here's my guess: nobody's moderating those postings.  Somehow, the
> > rules for moderation have gotten screwed up, and posts from people
> > on other PG mailing lists are just being allowed through
> > willy-nilly.
>
> That's not my guess.
>
> 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.
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