From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>,
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Subject: Re: A plague of link spam ...
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Comments: In-reply-to Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
	message dated "Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:48:33 -0000"
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:56:04 -0400
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Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> On 16 Mar 2013, at 18:34, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:

>> On 03/15/2013 09:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
>>>> On 03/15/2013 07:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>> (I am only about one or two more spams away from
>>>>> summarily blocking all yahoo traffic from my own mail server, btw.
>>>>> They account for easily a third of all the spam I'm seeing lately.)

>> However - I still don't think we can seriously consider blocking all of
>> yahoo inbound - what do others think about this?

> Sooner or later someone has to make a stand. 

TBH I wasn't (very) seriously suggesting we institute such a block on
the project's mailing lists, only remarking that I was about ready
to do so for my own mail.  But I'm well known for having draconian
filtering in place.

What I *would* like to see on the lists is some attempt at catching
link spam, because more and more of that has been getting through
lately.  I'm not sure all of it has been from yahoo accounts.

			regards, tom lane


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