Re: Policy on cross-posting to multiple lists

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 7:48 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > > On 2019-Jan-11, Andres Freund wrote:
> > >> On 2019-01-11 11:38:05 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > >>> Thoughts?  Specific votes in one of those directions would help me, at
> > >>> least, figure out what should be done today.
> >
> > >> I think you should just revert to the prior state, and then we can
> > >> discuss potential solutions and the problems they're intended to
> > >> address.
> >
> > > +1
> >
> > Same here.  The problem you want to solve has been there for decades,
> > we don't need a solution urgently.
>
> So, this thread never got to anywhere and, unsurprisingly, we're seeing
> not just a continuing set of cross-posts that shouldn't be, but an
> increase in them.
>
> At this point, I'd suggest we start moderating such cross-posts, letting
> moderators know that they should reject ones that aren't done with any
> thought to it with a request to the submitter to please pick a list
> instead of spamming them all.
>
> Thoughts?

Huge +1