Re: Approval of announce posts

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 21:47, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of lun ene 17 17:31:42 -0300 2011:
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> > Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> >> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> Someone is again approving announce posts that shouldn't be approved.
>> >>> We don't need to broadcast a discussion of which events will be
>> >>> recorded and how to get a visa to our entire readership.
>> >
>> >> And someone just approved another one of this type...
>> >
>> > I haven't seen anyone confess to ill-considered approvals.  Is it
>> > possible there's a bug that's letting some things slide through
>> > unapproved?
>>
>> I think it's more likely that there's a bug that's letting some
>> carelessness slide through unconfessed, but as Magnus said, we really
>> need to log somewhere what actions have been taken by which moderators
>> so that we can respond in a little bit more informed way to problems
>> in this area.
>
> Since the posts are CCed to more than one list, maybe it's being
> approved on (say) pgsql-general and this makes the system approve the
> pgsql-announce one as well.
>
> The other theory is that you guys are all confused and you're seeing the
> copy in pgsql-general thinking that it's broadcast to -announce when
> it's not.  My web access ATM is totally broken so I cannot figure
> whether this is true.

Several went through on -announce, according to
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2011-01/index.php. So
it's not that simple.

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