Received: from magus.postgresql.org (magus.postgresql.org [87.238.57.229]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE2D1BFF91D for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:05:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SGGLb-0005sy-50 for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:05:33 +0000 Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q36L5HYA016171; Fri, 6 Apr 2012 17:05:17 -0400 (EDT) To: "Greg Sabino Mullane" cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Stopping link spam on the lists In-reply-to: <9b3dc19eca1384479d9f806e2233e2f4@biglumber.com> References: <9b3dc19eca1384479d9f806e2233e2f4@biglumber.com> Comments: In-reply-to "Greg Sabino Mullane" message dated "Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:48:39 -0000" Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:05:17 -0400 Message-ID: <16170.1333746317@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Archive-Number: 201204/7 X-Sequence-Number: 20581 "Greg Sabino Mullane" 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. regards, tom lane