Re: Policy on cross-posting to multiple lists

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Policy on cross-posting to multiple lists
Date: 2019-01-10 18:23:47
Message-ID: CA+OCxoxsEC78bJrkgWObfx7jDTZ_DPi7TucEZSmS4hXbZOYDTw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:17 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > * Dean Rasheed (dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> >> Has the policy on cross-posting to multiple lists been hardened recently?
>
> > So, the short answer is 'yes'.
> > Perhaps that hasn't been getting through to people...?
>
> If this was publicly announced anywhere, I didn't see it.
> I would have pushed back if I had. CC'ing -hackers on a reply to
> a bug report is something I do all the time, and I do not think
> it'd be a good idea to stop doing so, nor to make the thread
> disappear from the -bugs archives.
>
> I'm quite on board with the need to reduce useless cross-posting,
> but this is not the solution.

Agreed. Similarly, posts from pgadmin-support sometimes end up
intentionally being cross posted to pgadmin-hackers.

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