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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: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:34:12 +0100
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On 03/15/2013 09:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]> 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.)
> 
>> yeah abuse on yahoo accounts is really bad, but I don't think we can
>> block those in general...
> 
> TBH, I think Yahoo doesn't give a damn about their spam problem because
> they think they're too big for anybody to block them.  It's not going to
> get better until some people start to do so anyway.

yeah yahoo seems to be unable to deal with them - there is tons of
discussions about the yahoo DKIM-signed-"only a link" spam on the
spamassassin lists for example and some people consider it the "#1 spam
problem" there...


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

Stefan


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