Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGwDb-0002nM-FG for pgsql-www@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:52:35 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGwDa-0004NO-Pm for pgsql-www@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:52:34 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:7903:4::125]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGwDZ-0004MF-EM for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:52:33 +0000 Received: from meldrar.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::31]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGwDW-0007u6-He for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:52:32 +0000 Received: from [109.78.48.215] (helo=[127.0.0.1]) by meldrar.postgresql.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGwDO-0004Ow-LR; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:52:24 +0000 Message-ID: <5144BF61.7020905@iol.ie> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:52:17 +0000 From: Raymond O'Donnell Reply-To: rod@iol.ie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Page CC: Stefan Kaltenbrunner , Tom Lane , "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> <5144BB24.9080001@kaltenbrunner.cc> <52010C9D-0538-45D2-B781-32CC869B3533@pgadmin.org> In-Reply-To: <52010C9D-0538-45D2-B781-32CC869B3533@pgadmin.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130316-0, 16/03/2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Host-Lookup-Failed: Reverse DNS lookup failed for 109.78.48.215 (failed) X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) 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 16/03/2013 18:48, Dave Page wrote: > > > On 16 Mar 2013, at 18:34, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > >> 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? >> > > 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. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland rod@iol.ie -- Sent via pgsql-www mailing list (pgsql-www@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-www