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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: A plague of link spam ...
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:30:11 +0100
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On 03/15/2013 07:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I've been seeing more and more link spam getting through on the PG
> lists; this past week there's been about one a day.  It might or might
> not be relevant that just about every single one of them is from
> yahoo.com accounts.  (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.)

yeah abuse on yahoo accounts is really bad, but I don't think we can
block those in general...

> 
> Can't we adjust the spam filters to be a bit more wary of traffic like
> the attached?  Single body line consisting of a URL is not legitimate
> list traffic IMO.

I will see what I can do, alvaro and I have some ideas on how to improve
our current filtering but doing that without blocking (too much)
legimate mail requires careful testing and evaluation...


Stefan


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