Thread: spam flood?
Hi, Is there anything we can do to mitigate the current spam flood to the lists? If not, I'm going to have to route moderation requests this weekend to /dev/null. There is no way I can keep up with this firehose over the weekend. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@commandprompt.com +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/
At 5:27p -0400 on Fri, 30 May 2008, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Is there anything we can do to mitigate the current spam flood to the > lists? > > If not, I'm going to have to route moderation requests this weekend to > /dev/null. There is no way I can keep up with this firehose over the > weekend. Perhaps a silly question from a lurker, but aren't the lists post-only-if-subscriber? Why does the spam problem keep coming up? Kevin
I won't be able also during sunday and monday, long trip ahead :( On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anything we can do to mitigate the current spam flood to the > lists? > > If not, I'm going to have to route moderation requests this weekend to > /dev/null. There is no way I can keep up with this firehose over the > weekend. > > A > > -- > Andrew Sullivan > ajs@commandprompt.com > +1 503 667 4564 x104 > http://www.commandprompt.com/ > > -- > Sent via pgsql-www mailing list (pgsql-www@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-www > -- Guido Barosio ----------------------- http://www.globant.com guido.barosio@globant.com
Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anything we can do to mitigate the current spam flood to the > lists? It seems greylisting has stopped working again. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Already fixed ... had some problems with the spam process, so I disabled it so that the lists mail didn't get hung up ... once the process was fixed, I re-enabled it ... - --On Friday, May 30, 2008 17:27:31 -0400 Andrew Sullivan <ajs@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anything we can do to mitigate the current spam flood to the > lists? > > If not, I'm going to have to route moderation requests this weekend to > /dev/null. There is no way I can keep up with this firehose over the > weekend. > > A > > -- > Andrew Sullivan > ajs@commandprompt.com > +1 503 667 4564 x104 > http://www.commandprompt.com/ > > -- > Sent via pgsql-www mailing list (pgsql-www@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-www - -- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhAuQgACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvPhbACg5eedbHl4OtiXpKsHLhufaFBU 7FYAn2lZlq+ytLhLRJwXaWapnHrYhj90 =hyp/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 'post only' means that any posts from non-subscribers have to be approved by a moderator ... we have anti-spam filtering in place to try and reduce what moderators have to approve to stuff that is 'legit' (as much as possible) ... - --On Friday, May 30, 2008 21:33:04 -0400 Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.edu> wrote: > At 5:27p -0400 on Fri, 30 May 2008, Andrew Sullivan wrote: >> Is there anything we can do to mitigate the current spam flood to the >> lists? >> >> If not, I'm going to have to route moderation requests this weekend to >> /dev/null. There is no way I can keep up with this firehose over the >> weekend. > > Perhaps a silly question from a lurker, but aren't the lists > post-only-if-subscriber? Why does the spam problem keep coming up? > > Kevin > > -- > Sent via pgsql-www mailing list (pgsql-www@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-www - -- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhAv3gACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvMAeQCg3ig2Hc9TI7lCOrCVnk94HOEQ ZnUAoN8JfBRDxnRV715ZdY/VexLC5dvo =5ZDI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> It seems greylisting has stopped working again.
That would explain why the mail lists have been speedy as baked beans.
As best I can tell from here it got broke early Friday morning (EDT).
regards, tom lane
Kevin Hunter wrote: > At 5:27p -0400 on Fri, 30 May 2008, Andrew Sullivan wrote: >> Is there anything we can do to mitigate the current spam flood to the >> lists? >> If not, I'm going to have to route moderation requests this weekend to >> /dev/null. There is no way I can keep up with this firehose over the >> weekend. > > Perhaps a silly question from a lurker, but aren't the lists > post-only-if-subscriber? Why does the spam problem keep coming up? Its the moderators that have the issue. For example, pgsql-announce. Joshua D. Drake > > Kevin >
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Andrew Sullivan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there anything we can do to mitigate the current spam flood to the >> lists? > > It seems greylisting has stopped working again. > My understanding is that one of Marc's machines is down, which hosts ns.hub.org, maia and a couple of other services. Joshua D. Drake