Re: Cross-posting to 26 lists?

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> WWW,
>>
>> John Nash was just able to cross-post to 26 mailing lists at once.  I
>> thought we had a filter in place to prevent posting to more than 2 lists
>> at once?
>
> I think the problem here was one of misunderstanding Majordomo.  I saw
> his post in the moderation interface and thought a bit about it; I
> thought I would let one copy get through and approved it; then
> mass-rejected all remaining moderation requests (all spam).  I didn't
> notice that Majordomo had published all the other copies; maybe what
> happened (but with my understanding of how Mj2 works, I don't think this
> is likely) was that the re-sender process saw the CCs in the mail header
> and copied to all the other lists.
>
> I don't care enough to spend much of my time researching this.  It's not
> like we have this problem every week.
>
>> Oh, and please ban him, of course.
>
> I think this is an overreaction.  The guy has validly posted to other
> lists previously, and apart from the mistake of copying all lists in
> this one message, I don't see any sign of repeated misfeasance.  I don't
> see that forcing the guy to create a second gmail account to post would
> accomplish anything.

+1. It's not like it was spam - it was relevant to PostgreSQL.


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