Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

On 1/17/21 11:04 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I disagree in some of the points:
>
> El día domingo, enero 17, 2021 a las 10:10:28a. m. -0700, David G. Johnston escribió:
>
>> Neither images nor non-plain-text means that the content is unreadable, not
>> useful, or problematic. Dealing with these on an email-by-email basis
>> through the community seems fine.
>
> Mails to a mailing list should be text (or even ASCII) because not all
> subscribers can read HTML or images and they're not needed to describe a
> problem.
>
> Images have the risk to have malicious content with the intention to use bugs
> in the image viewers. HTML can "phone home" with one pixel href's to
> check if you opened the HTML page.
>
>> As we seem to be compiling a list for people to review upfront (the major
>> points in this thread should make it to the website and be linked to by
>> community responders when encountering said problematic posts).
>>
>> Always reply-to-all.
>
> Why? Why I (and other subscribers) have to have the same mail twice in
> the mbox?

You can prevent that by going here:

https://lists.postgresql.org/manage/

and checking:

Don't receive an extra copy of mails when listed in To or CC fields

Reply All is used so the folks involved in the conversation get the
emails in a timely manner even if the mail server is running slow
delivering to everyone else.

>
>> ...
>
> matthias
>

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