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From: Raymond O'Donnell <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: A plague of link spam ...
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:52:17 +0000
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On 16/03/2013 18:48, Dave Page wrote:
> 
> 
> On 16 Mar 2013, at 18:34, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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?
>>
> 
> Sooner or later someone has to make a stand. 
> 
> Disclaimer: I'm with Devrim in London. And England just lost to Wales. 

And a cracker of a match it was too... and Wales was the only team that
Ireland managed to beat this year... :-)

Ray.

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