Re: Policy on cross-posting to multiple lists

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 9:03 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > BTW now that this is working, I think we should discuss that if person A
> > cross-posts, and that post is approved, then whenever person B replies
> > it should also be approved -- surely there's no need to approve the
> > cross-posting (for the known subset of lists) for each reply.
>
> If that can be automated it'd surely make things noticeably less painful.
> As is, once somebody's started a multi-list thread, the only way to get
> out of trouble is for someone to remember to remove other lists from a
> reply ... and even then, if anyone replies to an earlier post, it's a mess
> all over again. But I didn't realize we had the ability to pre-approve
> whole threads for this filter?
>

We don't. And I don't see an obvious way to do it either.

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