Moderator on Committers?

Started by Simon Riggsover 15 years ago6 messages
#1Simon Riggs
simon@2ndQuadrant.com

I notice that there are many spam messages coming through on Committers.

That seems a little strange, since one of my commit messages has been
held for moderator approval. (Apparently the word "sub" just happened to
get wrapped into first byte position, and so has been confused with a
subscribe message).

Who is approving spam, yet refusing to permit messages from actual
committers to the commit list?

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#2Marc G. Fournier
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Simon Riggs (#1)
Re: Moderator on Committers?

In this case, was it email From @news.postgresql.org to @postgresql.org?
If so, this is already been corrected ...

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Simon Riggs wrote:

I notice that there are many spam messages coming through on Committers.

That seems a little strange, since one of my commit messages has been
held for moderator approval. (Apparently the word "sub" just happened to
get wrapped into first byte position, and so has been confused with a
subscribe message).

Who is approving spam, yet refusing to permit messages from actual
committers to the commit list?

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#3Greg Sabino Mullane
greg@turnstep.com
In reply to: Simon Riggs (#1)
Re: [HACKERS] Moderator on Committers?

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I notice that there are many spam messages coming through on Committers.

Many?

That seems a little strange, since one of my commit messages has been
held for moderator approval. (Apparently the word "sub" just happened to
get wrapped into first byte position, and so has been confused with a
subscribe message).

Who is approving spam, yet refusing to permit messages from actual
committers to the commit list?

I think the spam slipped through because it was sent with a fake "from"
as the address of the mailing list itself. Marc has already closed the
hole per my complaint a couple of days ago. However, I think the committers
list could certainly do without the "subscription hint" filter. Marc,
can you disable that bit on the committers list or make me an admin
for that list so I can do it myself?

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#4Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Greg Sabino Mullane (#3)
Re: [HACKERS] Moderator on Committers?

"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:

I think the spam slipped through because it was sent with a fake "from"
as the address of the mailing list itself. Marc has already closed the
hole per my complaint a couple of days ago. However, I think the committers
list could certainly do without the "subscription hint" filter. Marc,
can you disable that bit on the committers list or make me an admin
for that list so I can do it myself?

+1 ... just make sure you don't disable the "Security:" filter.

(Possibly better would be to bypass those filters only for messages
sourced from the CVS daemon, if that's possible.)

regards, tom lane

#5Alvaro Herrera
alvherre@commandprompt.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#4)
Re: [HACKERS] Moderator on Committers?

Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar ago 10 10:05:25 -0400 2010:

"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:

I think the spam slipped through because it was sent with a fake "from"
as the address of the mailing list itself. Marc has already closed the
hole per my complaint a couple of days ago. However, I think the committers
list could certainly do without the "subscription hint" filter. Marc,
can you disable that bit on the committers list or make me an admin
for that list so I can do it myself?

+1 ... just make sure you don't disable the "Security:" filter.

(Possibly better would be to bypass those filters only for messages
sourced from the CVS daemon, if that's possible.)

Possibly the script that sends the email from CVS could use the list
password somehow so that the email is automatically authorized? (Of
course, the password must not leak from there)

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#6Magnus Hagander
magnus@hagander.net
In reply to: Alvaro Herrera (#5)
Re: [HACKERS] Moderator on Committers?

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 16:29, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:

Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar ago 10 10:05:25 -0400 2010:

"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:

I think the spam slipped through because it was sent with a fake "from"
as the address of the mailing list itself. Marc has already closed the
hole per my complaint a couple of days ago. However, I think the committers
list could certainly do without the "subscription hint" filter. Marc,
can you disable that bit on the committers list or make me an admin
for that list so I can do it myself?

+1 ... just make sure you don't disable the "Security:" filter.

(Possibly better would be to bypass those filters only for messages
sourced from the CVS daemon, if that's possible.)

Possibly the script that sends the email from CVS could use the list
password somehow so that the email is automatically authorized?  (Of
course, the password must not leak from there)

Yikes. That seems way more complex than called for. (Even if it's
possible - which I doubt it is, at least without making it a *lot*
more complex).

If we can get rid of the admin commands filter, every committer's
email should be on that list anyway. And if it gets moderated for that
reason, it's easy enough to add with nomail. We don't have that many
committers after all...

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