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Cross posting

From
"Greg Sabino Mullane"
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Regarding the licensing thread:

Any chance we can limit this topic (and perhaps future ones) 
to a single list? I think everyone involved reads both HACKERS 
and GENERAL. 

Thanks,
Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200201212116


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Re: Cross posting

From
Tom Lane
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"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:
> Regarding the licensing thread:

> Any chance we can limit this topic (and perhaps future ones) 
> to a single list? I think everyone involved reads both HACKERS 
> and GENERAL. 

No, I think it's appropriate to continue this thread on both.
It's reasonably on-topic for both, and there are people who
read only one of the two lists.

If you are subscribed to multiple PG lists, it's a real good idea
to set up your subscriptions so that you get just one copy of
cross-posted articles, because you will see plenty of 'em ---
and you're wasting your breath to suggest that that's wrong.

IIRC, the magic recipe is:

send this one-line command to majordomo@postgresql.org    set all unique YourEmailAddressHere

(Hey Marc, is it possible to make this the default setting?
Seems like this question comes up fairly often...)
        regards, tom lane

Re: Cross posting

From
"Greg Sabino Mullane"
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> If you are subscribed to multiple PG lists, it's a real good idea
> to set up your subscriptions so that you get just one copy of
> cross-posted articles, because you will see plenty of 'em ---
> and you're wasting your breath to suggest that that's wrong.

Don't know if I agree that the discussion belonged on GENERAL, 
but it's too late at this point. In the future, maybe we 
could just post a final summary to the GENERAL list and leave 
the other posts between developers on HACKERS.

At any rate, thank you for answering the real question I 
was asking. :) After reading up on the majordomo docs, here is 
the correct way to do it. Send the command 

set ListName unique YourEmailAddressHere

to majordomo@postgresql.org, where ListName is the list that you 
want to receive the singe copy of multiple posts on. You will then 
receive a confirmation message from majordomo. For some reason, 
the majordomo is very slow: it took from 15-30 minutes to reply 
to each of my commands.(?!)

> (Hey Marc, is it possible to make this the default setting?
> Seems like this question comes up fairly often...)

Sounds like a great idea to me. Or maybe mention it on the 
subscription page or the welcome message.

Thanks,
Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200201221643

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Re: Cross posting

From
Tom Lane
Date:
"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:
> After reading up on the majordomo docs, here is 
> the correct way to do it. Send the command 

> set ListName unique YourEmailAddressHere

> to majordomo@postgresql.org, where ListName is the list that you 
> want to receive the singe copy of multiple posts on.

I believe you want to set "unique" mode on *all* the PG lists that you
are subscribed to; leastwise that's what works for me.  Rather than
issuing the command for each list individually, you can just use the
shorthand

set all unique YourEmailAddressHere
        regards, tom lane

Re: Cross posting

From
"Greg Sabino Mullane"
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>I believe you want to set "unique" mode on *all* the PG lists that you
>are subscribed to; leastwise that's what works for me.  Rather than
>issuing the command for each list individually, you can just use the 
>shorthand

>set all unique YourEmailAddressHere

First thing I tried. Majordomo didn't like it:

>>>> set all unique greg@turnstep.com
Illegal list "all".
No valid commands processed.


Greg Sabino Mullane
greg@turnstep.com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200201221848

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Re: Cross posting

From
Tom Lane
Date:
"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:
>> set all unique YourEmailAddressHere

> First thing I tried. Majordomo didn't like it:

> set all unique greg@turnstep.com
> Illegal list "all".

Hmph.  It's documented to work ... wait a minute.  The examples in the
help file all use ALL, not all.  Maybe it's case-sensitive?
        regards, tom lane

Re: Cross posting

From
"Ross J. Reedstrom"
Date:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:11:35PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:
> >> set all unique YourEmailAddressHere
> 
> > First thing I tried. Majordomo didn't like it:
> 
> > set all unique greg@turnstep.com
> > Illegal list "all".
> 
> Hmph.  It's documented to work ... wait a minute.  The examples in the
> help file all use ALL, not all.  Maybe it's case-sensitive?

Yup, just tested it. Waiting on the confirmation now. 'all' returns an
error 'ALL' is successful.

Ross