Thread: Re: [GENERAL] PgUS 2008 end of year summary
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes: > Gregory Stark wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes: >> >> Well cross-posting is especially annoying on subscriber-only moderated lists >> such as ours. Anyone who follows up to an email who isn't subscribed to all >> the lists will get bounce warnings for each list they're not on. > > Especially annoying? You'll get a bounce warning. That's all. You > don't have to do anything about it; just wait for the moderator to > approve it. In fact, when I (as the sender) get those, I just delete > them. You don't think getting bounces every time you respond to a message is annoying? I get annoyed whenever a user posts with an address which bounces and I get *really* annoyed at the similar case when someone's email address has a broken mailer which bounces to people who post to the mailing list. >> > (If you want it to be even more pain-free, add a Reply-To: >> > pgsql-advocacy header or some such.) >> >> Yeah, actually that doesn't work. > > Hmm, it doesn't work how? I admit I haven't tried it, so I'm using this > message as a test (I added Reply-To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org) Well this was a wide followup to your message, which I think failed to do what you wanted. More dramatically if I had tried to reply personally to you your Reply-To would redirect the personal message to the list. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's On-Demand Production Tuning
Gregory Stark wrote: > > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes: > > > Gregory Stark wrote: > >> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes: > >> > >> Well cross-posting is especially annoying on subscriber-only moderated lists > >> such as ours. Anyone who follows up to an email who isn't subscribed to all > >> the lists will get bounce warnings for each list they're not on. > > > > Especially annoying? You'll get a bounce warning. That's all. You > > don't have to do anything about it; just wait for the moderator to > > approve it. In fact, when I (as the sender) get those, I just delete > > them. > > You don't think getting bounces every time you respond to a message is > annoying? I get annoyed whenever a user posts with an address which bounces > and I get *really* annoyed at the similar case when someone's email address > has a broken mailer which bounces to people who post to the mailing list. Well, that's different and I get annoyed on those cases too, if only because the message will not just get to the destination. But when a message is just delayed, I have no problem with it really. It still takes me some low number of seconds to delete the bounce; the difference is whether the time I took to write the response is wasted for good or not. > >> > (If you want it to be even more pain-free, add a Reply-To: > >> > pgsql-advocacy header or some such.) > >> > >> Yeah, actually that doesn't work. > > > > Hmm, it doesn't work how? I admit I haven't tried it, so I'm using this > > message as a test (I added Reply-To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org) > > Well this was a wide followup to your message, which I think failed to do what > you wanted. More dramatically if I had tried to reply personally to you your > Reply-To would redirect the personal message to the list. That's true too. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll stop advocating this idea. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
Scott Marlowe escribió: > In this thread getting a bounce from advocacy won't bother me too > much. Having hundreds ot bounce messages in a busy thread, would be > much much worse. Yup. > I wonder, if all the mailing lists are run by the same software, > wouldn't it be easy enough to have a kind of passthrough filter for > other mailiing list? You can post to them in addition to the ones > you're subscribed to, knowing you'll get the thread back by reply to > semantics and no one need get a bounce message. At most a "we've > secretly moderated your post into pgsql-xyz, let's see if they notice > you're not really a member of their mailing list" reply. And / or an > auto approval message into the group you're posting into? Yeah, there is a way to configure lists this way in Mj2. We only have to get Marc to play along ... -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support