Thread: Cross-posting to 26 lists?
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? Oh, and please ban him, of course. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 02:31:20PM -0700, 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? > > Oh, and please ban him, of course. And here is the email that contains his email address: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2012-10/msg00046.php -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +
On 16 October 2012 22:45, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 02:31:20PM -0700, 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? >> >> Oh, and please ban him, of course. > > And here is the email that contains his email address: > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2012-10/msg00046.php I noticed that, and rejected his post to the -novice list. -- Thom
On 16 October 2012 22:31, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > Oh, and please ban him, of course. I'm inclined to agree. This, along with the fact that he's obviously using a fake name makes me believe that he has no intention of ever giving a single thing back. -- Peter Geoghegan http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services
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. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
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. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>> 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. Has someone sent him an email saying "don't do that again or you will get kicked off", though? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
Josh Berkus wrote: > > >> 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. > > Has someone sent him an email saying "don't do that again or you will > get kicked off", though? I suggest either you or Bruce do it :-) -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > >>> 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. > > Has someone sent him an email saying "don't do that again or you will > get kicked off", though? I replied to him on one of the lists (-hackers iirc) and told him not to do it again. I didn't threaten him with being booted though. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
On 10/17/12 1:15 PM, Dave Page wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: >> >>>> 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. >> >> Has someone sent him an email saying "don't do that again or you will >> get kicked off", though? > > I replied to him on one of the lists (-hackers iirc) and told him not > to do it again. I didn't threaten him with being booted though. Seems sufficient. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com