Re: A plague of link spam ...

Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> > On 16 Mar 2013, at 18:34, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:
>
> >> On 03/15/2013 09:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.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.

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