Cross posting

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

Regarding the licensing thread:

Any chance we can limit this topic (and perhaps future ones)
to a single list? I think everyone involved reads both HACKERS
and GENERAL.

No, I think it's appropriate to continue this thread on both.
It's reasonably on-topic for both, and there are people who
read only one of the two lists.

If you are subscribed to multiple PG lists, it's a real good idea
to set up your subscriptions so that you get just one copy of
cross-posted articles, because you will see plenty of 'em ---
and you're wasting your breath to suggest that that's wrong.

IIRC, the magic recipe is:

send this one-line command to majordomo@postgresql.org
set all unique YourEmailAddressHere

(Hey Marc, is it possible to make this the default setting?
Seems like this question comes up fairly often...)

regards, tom lane

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If you are subscribed to multiple PG lists, it's a real good idea
to set up your subscriptions so that you get just one copy of
cross-posted articles, because you will see plenty of 'em ---
and you're wasting your breath to suggest that that's wrong.

Don't know if I agree that the discussion belonged on GENERAL,
but it's too late at this point. In the future, maybe we
could just post a final summary to the GENERAL list and leave
the other posts between developers on HACKERS.

At any rate, thank you for answering the real question I
was asking. :) After reading up on the majordomo docs, here is
the correct way to do it. Send the command

set ListName unique YourEmailAddressHere

to majordomo@postgresql.org, where ListName is the list that you
want to receive the singe copy of multiple posts on. You will then
receive a confirmation message from majordomo. For some reason,
the majordomo is very slow: it took from 15-30 minutes to reply
to each of my commands.(?!)

(Hey Marc, is it possible to make this the default setting?
Seems like this question comes up fairly often...)

Sounds like a great idea to me. Or maybe mention it on the
subscription page or the welcome message.

Thanks,
Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200201221643

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

After reading up on the majordomo docs, here is
the correct way to do it. Send the command

set ListName unique YourEmailAddressHere

to majordomo@postgresql.org, where ListName is the list that you
want to receive the singe copy of multiple posts on.

I believe you want to set "unique" mode on *all* the PG lists that you
are subscribed to; leastwise that's what works for me. Rather than
issuing the command for each list individually, you can just use the
shorthand

set all unique YourEmailAddressHere

regards, tom lane

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I believe you want to set "unique" mode on *all* the PG lists that you
are subscribed to; leastwise that's what works for me. Rather than
issuing the command for each list individually, you can just use the
shorthand

set all unique YourEmailAddressHere

First thing I tried. Majordomo didn't like it:

set all unique greg@turnstep.com

Illegal list "all".
No valid commands processed.

Greg Sabino Mullane
greg@turnstep.com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200201221848

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

set all unique YourEmailAddressHere

First thing I tried. Majordomo didn't like it:

set all unique greg@turnstep.com
Illegal list "all".

Hmph. It's documented to work ... wait a minute. The examples in the
help file all use ALL, not all. Maybe it's case-sensitive?

regards, tom lane

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:11:35PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

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

set all unique YourEmailAddressHere

First thing I tried. Majordomo didn't like it:

set all unique greg@turnstep.com
Illegal list "all".

Hmph. It's documented to work ... wait a minute. The examples in the
help file all use ALL, not all. Maybe it's case-sensitive?

Yup, just tested it. Waiting on the confirmation now. 'all' returns an
error 'ALL' is successful.

Ross