From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Cross-posting to 26 lists? |
Date: | 2012-10-17 13:39:14 |
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> WWW,
>>
>> John Nash was just able to cross-post to 26 mailing lists at once. I
>> thought we had a filter in place to prevent posting to more than 2 lists
>> at once?
>
> I think the problem here was one of misunderstanding Majordomo. I saw
> his post in the moderation interface and thought a bit about it; I
> thought I would let one copy get through and approved it; then
> mass-rejected all remaining moderation requests (all spam). I didn't
> notice that Majordomo had published all the other copies; maybe what
> happened (but with my understanding of how Mj2 works, I don't think this
> is likely) was that the re-sender process saw the CCs in the mail header
> and copied to all the other lists.
>
> I don't care enough to spend much of my time researching this. It's not
> like we have this problem every week.
>
>> Oh, and please ban him, of course.
>
> I think this is an overreaction. The guy has validly posted to other
> lists previously, and apart from the mistake of copying all lists in
> this one message, I don't see any sign of repeated misfeasance. I don't
> see that forcing the guy to create a second gmail account to post would
> accomplish anything.
+1. It's not like it was spam - it was relevant to PostgreSQL.
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