Re: Announce mailing list approvals

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.

And perhaps by somebody either not on this list, or not paying
attention on this list :)

> Can someone please care about this?

I don't really know the mj2 config. AFAICT it's set up to moderate
everything except for a very specific list of people. I can't actually
figure out how to view that list of people :-), but it's
"pgsql-announce:restrict".

Alvaro, can you check?

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