Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGvw6-0000LS-2S for pgsql-www@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:34:30 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGvw5-0002uN-Io for pgsql-www@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:34:29 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGvw4-0002tV-T9 for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:34:28 +0000 Received: from [2a02:16a8:dc41::11] (helo=cronos.madness.at) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGvw2-0007Ts-C1 for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:34:28 +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 1UGvvz-0005TN-AH; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:34:25 +0100 Message-ID: <5144BB24.9080001@kaltenbrunner.cc> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:34:12 +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> <514376C3.9060405@kaltenbrunner.cc> <28200.1363380396@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <28200.1363380396@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 09:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Stefan Kaltenbrunner 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 -- Sent via pgsql-www mailing list (pgsql-www@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-www