Re: [CORE] Egad, what a lot of spammage - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [CORE] Egad, what a lot of spammage
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Msg-id 20080116162725.GB5076@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: [CORE] Egad, what a lot of spammage  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: [CORE] Egad, what a lot of spammage  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:33:31AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > 
> > - --On Tuesday, January 15, 2008 21:43:23 -0800 "Joshua D. Drake" 
> > <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I wonder if it would be possible to restrict the gateway so that if
> > > the only way it gets through is if the post "only" posts to pgsql.
> > > groups.
> > 
> > I'll get that setup tonight ... I disabled usenet->mail last night 
> > (mail->usenet still active) when Tom paged me ...
> 
> Do we have any statistics of how many *legitimate* posts actually come
> thruogh that way? That aren't spam of any kind?

I don't know about statistics, but I did a simple search on the headers
and there certainly is people using the gateway to post.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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