On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.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".
Members are Marc Fournier, Robert Treat and David Fetter. The only one
of those that I can imagine actually needs un-fettered access (pardon
the pun) is David - but he's a moderator anyway.
So, I've set moderate to yes for now, so all messages need to be
moderated. If any more come through, someone isn't paying attention.
--
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