public inbox for [email protected]  

help / color / mirror / Atom feed

From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: A plague of link spam ...
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:30:37 +0100
Message-ID: <CABUevEzJvZF-YTD2mVT9x3Pc2e7wVQ+YX61b9_Dx+kKso4+1Fw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?body=unsub%20pgsql-www>

On Mar 17, 2013 12:39 AM, "Alvaro Herrera" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Dave Page <[email protected]> writes:
> > > 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.)
> >
> > >> 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.
> >
> > TBH I wasn't (very) seriously suggesting we institute such a block on
> > the project's mailing lists, only remarking that I was about ready
> > to do so for my own mail.  But I'm well known for having draconian
> > filtering in place.
>
> The valid traffic from Yahoo is fairly low -- less than one a day.
>
> It bothers me too that link spam is getting through.  We have a great
> record of very clean traffic.  I'm happy to hear that Stefan is working
> more on improving it, thanks.
>

If it's less than one per day, perhaps we can just auto moderate *all* mail
from yahoo, at least as a temporary measure?

/Magnus

view thread (15+ messages)  latest in thread

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: A plague of link spam ...
  In-Reply-To: <CABUevEzJvZF-YTD2mVT9x3Pc2e7wVQ+YX61b9_Dx+kKso4+1Fw@mail.gmail.com>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox