Re: PostgreSQL moderation report: 2009-6-16

Honestly, as a moderator, none of these discussions are motivating.

IMHO the report helps. And I don't care if it comes via -slaves or -www.

gb.-



On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Bruce Momjian<bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 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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