| From: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-www(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: A plague of link spam ... |
| Date: | 2013-03-15 19:30:11 |
| Message-ID: | 514376C3.9060405@kaltenbrunner.cc |
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On 03/15/2013 07:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I've been seeing more and more link spam getting through on the PG
> lists; this past week there's been about one a day. It might or might
> not be relevant that just about every single one of them is from
> yahoo.com accounts. (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...
>
> Can't we adjust the spam filters to be a bit more wary of traffic like
> the attached? Single body line consisting of a URL is not legitimate
> list traffic IMO.
I will see what I can do, alvaro and I have some ideas on how to improve
our current filtering but doing that without blocking (too much)
legimate mail requires careful testing and evaluation...
Stefan
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