Gavin Sherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Tom Lane wrote: >> AFAICT, the footer in question tries to make it illegal for us even to >> have the message in our mail archives. If I were running the PG lists, >> I would install filters that automatically reject mails containing such >> notices, with a message like "Your corporate lawyers do not deserve to >> have access to the internet. Go away until you've acquired a clue."
> I just noticed Bruce's email suggesting that this is going ahead: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2007-03/msg00098.php I doubt that we'll go so far as to auto-bounce mail, but we definitely are going to take a harder line about not accepting patches that are submitted with such attachments. > Another concern I've had is that the assumption is that those wanting to > contribute (code) will just have to go register some throw away hotmail or > yahoo account. I think this will make tracing the origin of code more > difficult in the long term. True, but having it definitely traceable to a company that had not given permission for its use is not good either. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
