Re: A plague of link spam ... - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Magnus Hagander
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In response to Re: A plague of link spam ...  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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<p dir="ltr"><br /> On Mar 17, 2013 12:39 AM, "Alvaro Herrera" <<a
href="mailto:alvherre@2ndquadrant.com">alvherre@2ndquadrant.com</a>>wrote:<br /> ><br /> > Tom Lane wrote:<br
/>> > Dave Page <<a href="mailto:dpage@pgadmin.org">dpage@pgadmin.org</a>> writes:<br /> > > > On
16Mar 2013, at 18:34, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:<br /> > ><br /> > >
>>On 03/15/2013 09:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote:<br /> > > >>> Stefan Kaltenbrunner
<stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>writes:<br /> > > >>>> On 03/15/2013 07:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:<br />
>> >>>>> (I am only about one or two more spams away from<br /> > > >>>>>
summarilyblocking all yahoo traffic from my own mail server, btw.<br /> > > >>>>> They account for
easilya third of all the spam I'm seeing lately.)<br /> > ><br /> > > >> However - I still don't
thinkwe can seriously consider blocking all of<br /> > > >> yahoo inbound - what do others think about
this?<br/> > ><br /> > > > Sooner or later someone has to make a stand.<br /> > ><br /> > >
TBHI wasn't (very) seriously suggesting we institute such a block on<br /> > > the project's mailing lists, only
remarkingthat I was about ready<br /> > > to do so for my own mail.  But I'm well known for having draconian<br
/>> > filtering in place.<br /> ><br /> > The valid traffic from Yahoo is fairly low -- less than one a
day.<br/> ><br /> > It bothers me too that link spam is getting through.  We have a great<br /> > record of
veryclean traffic.  I'm happy to hear that Stefan is working<br /> > more on improving it, thanks.<br /> ><p
dir="ltr">Ifit's less than one per day, perhaps we can just auto moderate *all* mail from yahoo, at least as a
temporarymeasure? <p dir="ltr">/Magnus  

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