Re: Please stop approving obvious spam...

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 21:49, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
> On 4 September 2010 19:14, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Whoever approved this was asleep at the switch; and the same for the
>> spam from the same address a few days ago in pgsql-admin.
>>
>> (I assume from the timestamps that it was moderated, and the
>> source address isn't actually subscribed.)
>
> I haven't got access to the list to check the email address, but yes,
> I'm pretty sure that was moderated.

I just checked the moderation queue of -hackers, which had about 40
unmoderated messages (all but three was spam). Well over half of these
were messages that were spam but that looked like responses to proper
thread (subject line actually active on the lists within the past day
or two). My guess is somebody got slightly trigger-happy and only
checked the subject and not the contents. AFAIK, this is a new "type"
of spam that hasn't shown up before - at least I haven't seen it.

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