Re:

FWIW, a couple of months ago the anti-spam mail filters on our server
started to reject "anything yahoo" (including loads of legit stuff,
obviously). And I still see a lot of messages announcing that Ive just been
subscribed to this or that yahoo discussion group. However, this is all OT,
I suppose what we need here is just a way to signal spammers to the admin,
is there any?

Bèrto

On 9 December 2011 06:13, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > On 12/08/2011 03:12 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> >> Just wondering, and without intending to cast any aspersions on the
> >> poster - is this spam or legit? I didn't take the risk of actually
> >> clicking it...
>
> > It is not legit in any way.
>
> Lately we've been seeing a lot of link-spam with just a link in the
> body, generally no subject line, and the real tip-off is that it's
> addressed To: both pgsql-general (or another of our lists) and half a
> dozen random other addresses.
>
> I assume these are coming from addresses that are actually subscribed
> to our lists, because otherwise the moderators should've rejected them.
> Probably somebody's found a way to break into large numbers of yahoo
> and google mail accounts and spam from them to all their address book
> entries ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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