Re: Problems with pgsql-announce

On Friday 12 January 2007 03:39, Dave Page wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > --On Monday, January 08, 2007 12:02:53 -0800 Josh Berkus
> > <josh@agliodbs.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> Greg,
> >>
> >>> Yeah, something weird is going on there. From looking at the moderation
> >>> queue, it seems everyone is getting three or four duplicates. Maybe
> >>> we can simply turn that off, Marc?
> >>
> >> ... not if duplicates are actually being received; we don't want 3-4 or
> >> each message.
> >
> > Right now, any duplicates are supposed to be shuffled to the moderators
> > queue to deal with ... what the filter is *supposed* to deal with is
> > spam, which tends to be alot of duplicates of the same message with
> > different headers ...
>
> Don't think I ever saw one in the queue. Plenty of bounces though...
>
> > If I remove the duplicate altogether, I suspect that there won't be much
> > change on the lists themselves, but I don't know for sure ...
>
> It hasn't made any difference whatsoever to the slaves list, except that
> we now get the reports we expect to see. I realise there's a difference
> between that and other lists, but it does still get spam.
>

We could change some of the more public but lower traffic lists, like
pgsql-www, first and see how that goes.

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Robert Treat
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