Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGaKg-0006Qr-3S for pgsql-www@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:30:26 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGaKf-0004oU-Fd for pgsql-www@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:30:25 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGaKe-0004oO-PQ for pgsql-www@postgreSQL.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:30:24 +0000 Received: from [2a02:16a8:dc41::11] (helo=cronos.madness.at) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGaKe-0001JM-3f for pgsql-www@postgreSQL.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:30:24 +0000 Received: from mastermind.kaltenbrunner.cc ([2001:470:7a2d::22]) by cronos.madness.at with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGaKZ-0004KH-A5; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:30:21 +0100 Message-ID: <514376C3.9060405@kaltenbrunner.cc> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:30:11 +0100 From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: pgsql-www@postgreSQL.org Subject: Re: A plague of link spam ... References: <24283.1363371381@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <24283.1363371381@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Host-Lookup-Failed: Reverse DNS lookup failed for 2a02:16a8:dc41::11 (failed) X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-www Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org 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 -- Sent via pgsql-www mailing list (pgsql-www@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-www