Re: RFD: comp.databases.postgresql.general

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:28:57PM +0000, Woodchuck Bill wrote:
> scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org ("Marc G. Fournier") wrote in
> news:20041107235943(dot)E93613(at)ganymede(dot)hub(dot)org:
>
> > Unless its spam, it goes through ... I don't (nor have I ever) refused a
> > post based on content other then spam ... even if its anti-PostgreSQL
> > *shrug*
>
> The problem with the system is that the spam *all* gets posted to Usenet,
> but not the mailing lists. The mailing lists may be moderated, but the
> newsgroups are not. That needs to be changed.
>
> Marc, please stop removing news.groups from your replies.

I'm on the mailing list and I'm not seeing news.groups in any of the
usual headers. It does sometimes appear in a seperate header
"Newsgroups". Besides, my mailer doesn't post to newsgroups so I'd have
to setup a newsreader just for that. I'd be surprised if I were the
only one...
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.