Re: Policy on cross-posting to multiple lists

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:17 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > * Dean Rasheed (dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com) wrote:
> >> Has the policy on cross-posting to multiple lists been hardened recently?
>
> > So, the short answer is 'yes'.
> > Perhaps that hasn't been getting through to people...?
>
> If this was publicly announced anywhere, I didn't see it.
> I would have pushed back if I had.  CC'ing -hackers on a reply to
> a bug report is something I do all the time, and I do not think
> it'd be a good idea to stop doing so, nor to make the thread
> disappear from the -bugs archives.
>
> I'm quite on board with the need to reduce useless cross-posting,
> but this is not the solution.

Agreed. Similarly, posts from pgadmin-support sometimes end up
intentionally being cross posted to pgadmin-hackers.

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