Re: A plague of link spam ...

On Mar 17, 2013 12:39 AM, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
> > > On 16 Mar 2013, at 18:34, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
<stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
> >
> > >> 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.)
> >
> > >> 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