Re: A plague of link spam ...

On 03/15/2013 09:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> 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