On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Also, I sent an email with a fake @pgfoundry.org address this morning,
> and it passed without requiring moderator approval. Also, I added a
> X-No-Archive header to avoid having the test message appearing on the
> archives, but to no effect -- the message is there all right:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-03/msg00393.php
I'm not sure that we actually honour that header.
> I think the idea here is that any pgfoundry.org address passes through
> unmolested to allow the pgfoundry projects to publish their changes to
> pgsql-committers. I think this is a mistake, and others have vouched
> against this idea too (most notably Peter Eisentraut.)
No, this is entirely intentional.
> Finally, and what prompted this test message, was the fact that Heikki
> committed a patch this morning and his message got stuck in the
> moderation queue. I wonder how smart it is to be letting @pgfoundry.org
> mails unchecked, but have @postgresql.org addresses filtered ... ??
We only add postgresql.org addresses very occasionally, but pgFoundry
committers may be added much more frequently and without our
knowledge.
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