Re: A plague of link spam ...

On 16/03/2013 18:48, Dave Page wrote:
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> On 16 Mar 2013, at 18:34, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
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>> 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.)
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>>>> yeah abuse on yahoo accounts is really bad, but I don't think we can
>>>> block those in general...
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>>> 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.
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>> 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...
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>> However - I still don't think we can seriously consider blocking all of
>> yahoo inbound - what do others think about this?
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> Sooner or later someone has to make a stand.
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> 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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