Re: PostgreSQL moderation report: 2009-6-16

Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> So the rest of us have to start filtering junk from our -www
> >> subscription? �Please undo this.
> 
> > Unless you have a better way of ensuring everything gets moderated.
> > This was discussed last week,
> 
> Discussed where?  Not here, that I saw.
> 
> Personally, I'm perfectly capable of procmail'ing these things into
> oblivion, and I'm sure most of the other subscribers to -www are too.
> So in a week or so the only effect that these missives will have is
> to permanently clutter the list archives.

Agreed.  The core problem is that moderators have to dig through tons of
spam/duplicates/cross-posting to do anything meaningful, and they are
resigning under that load.  Address that core issue;  shaming is not
going to help anyone.

Case in point --- I resubscribed to the press@postgresql.org mailing
list to help assist people, but there is so much spam that my
spamasassin baynes filter now considers all press@ email to be spam so I
don't see it anymore.  Hopefully if a legitimate press email arrives,
spamasassin will let it through, but I doubt it.  So I tried to help,
but will not actually help much.

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