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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: w^3 <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Stopping link spam on the lists
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:09:15 -0300
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie abr 06 18:05:17 -0300 2012:
> "Greg Sabino Mullane" <[email protected]> writes:
> >> And another thing I'd be in favor of is forcibly unsubscribing any
> >> account seen to have sent one of these.
> 
> > +1, but I wonder if that matters - are these compromised accounts, 
> > or simply throwaway ones?
> 
> Does it matter?  As long as they're spamming us more than once --- and
> they are --- zapping them would be worth doing, I think.

I always immediately unregister (which is to say, unsubscribe from all
lists and remove access to postgresql.org's Majordomo) any account from
which I see one of these link spam messages.  The thing is, I'm not
subscribed to all lists, and I don't even read all those that I am
subscribed to.  So many of these messages are passing unseen by me, and
the accounts are not unsubscribed until later.

As far as I see these accounts are all inactive accounts that subscribed
many years ago but are no longer receiving any list.  This is common in
Yahoo accounts because they tend to cause a lot of bounces and so are
unsubscribed by Majordomo automatically.

The idea of moderating emails with a high spam score is probably worth
trying out.  I'll have to research a bit how it's done though.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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