Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-29 Thread Thomas Lockhart
... > Let me disable the administrative stuff being blocked and we'll see if it > makes much of a difference in the way of 'false traffic' ... Great! Thanks Marc. - Thomas Uh, just to confirm: you are removing administrative blocks, and also removing any scanning of messages f

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > imho we should disable *any* special handling of posts to the mailing > > > lists. > > > > It would be interesting to try that for awhile and see if the cure is > > worse than th

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > imho we should disable *any* special handling of posts to the mailing > > lists. > > It would be interesting to try that for awhile and see if the cure is > worse than the disease or not. How many clueless "un

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Thomas Lockhart wrote: > Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > > > > checking the moderator-to-approve listing for you, here are the reason(s): > > > > > > > > Reason: GLOBAL ADMIN HEADER: /^subjec

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-28 Thread Jessica Perry Hekman
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > 2. Shouldn't the filter patterns be tightened up considerably? For > example, I consider it sheer folly that I cannot use the word "c*ncel" > in a Postgres discussion group without my posting being held up for > several days. I was wondering if we could i

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > imho we should disable *any* special handling of posts to the mailing > lists. It would be interesting to try that for awhile and see if the cure is worse than the disease or not. How many clueless "uns*bscr*be" requests will hit the lists if there a

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-27 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> > > The fact this is done silently is clearly unacceptable. > > Agreed. Curiously, though, I've always gotten notifications whenever > > any of my messages got held up for moderator approval. Seems like there > > are two questions for Marc here: > > 1. Why is the system failing to notify some

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-27 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> > The fact this is done silently is clearly unacceptable. > > Agreed. Curiously, though, I've always gotten notifications whenever > any of my messages got held up for moderator approval. Seems like there > are two questions for Marc here: > > 1. Why is the system failing to notify some peopl

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: >> I've always has this suspicion that every time I send an email with 'SET >> NULL' in the subject it doesn't get through!!! I've even commented on that >> on the list before! > The fact this is done silently is clearly

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > checking the moderator-to-approve listing for you, here are the reason(s): > > > > Reason: GLOBAL ADMIN HEADER: /^subject:\s*set\b/i matched "Subject: SET" > > OH MY GOD!!! > > I've always has this suspicion that every time I send an email with 'SET > NULL' in

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-27 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> checking the moderator-to-approve listing for you, here are the reason(s): > > Reason: GLOBAL ADMIN HEADER: /^subject:\s*set\b/i matched "Subject: SET" OH MY GOD!!! I've always has this suspicion that every time I send an email with 'SET NULL' in the subject it doesn't get through!!! I've eve

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-27 Thread Thomas Lockhart
Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > > checking the moderator-to-approve listing for you, here are the reason(s): > > > > > > Reason: GLOBAL ADMIN HEADER: /^subject:\s*set\b/i matched "Subject: SET" > > OK, but should poster

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-27 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > checking the moderator-to-approve listing for you, here are the reason(s): > > > > Reason: GLOBAL ADMIN HEADER: /^subject:\s*set\b/i matched "Subject: SET" > > > > OK, but should posters get email stating it is in the app

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > checking the moderator-to-approve listing for you, here are the reason(s): > > Reason: GLOBAL ADMIN HEADER: /^subject:\s*set\b/i matched "Subject: SET" > OK, but should posters get email stating it is in the approval queue? He clearly didn't, and I don't either, but

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
checking the moderator-to-approve listing for you, here are the reason(s): Reason: GLOBAL ADMIN HEADER: /^subject:\s*set\b/i matched "Subject: SET" On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > I just sent in this email and it will appear immediately in the list. > > Somewhat earlier,

Re: [HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > I just sent in this email and it will appear immediately in the list. > > Somewhat earlier, I have submitted a 25kb patch and then a 5kb gzipped > version of that patch to -hackers and -patches - it has not yet appeared on > the list. > > What's going on? Do pos

[HACKERS] Mailing List Question

2002-03-26 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
I just sent in this email and it will appear immediately in the list. Somewhat earlier, I have submitted a 25kb patch and then a 5kb gzipped version of that patch to -hackers and -patches - it has not yet appeared on the list. What's going on? Do posts with patches need to be approved or someth