From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
cc: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>,
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Subject: Re: A plague of link spam ...
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Comments: In-reply-to Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
	message dated "Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:09:51 +0100"
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:33:26 -0400
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Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
> On 03/16/2013 07:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

> working on it, spent a few hours yesterday and today to work on our
> filtering but it is not as easy as simply declaring "everything that is
> a very short mail and has a url in it is bad".
> We do have regular mailbox users (in the same namespaces as the list) as
> do we have lists that want to receive such stuff (say the sysadmin list
> getting an email about a failed http download from a cronjob with
> basically just the url).

Maybe that could be dealt with by whitelisting the expected senders
of such traffic?  Or maybe we could get away with blacklisting url-only
mails from yahoo and anyplace else that proves to be a problem?

			regards, tom lane


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