From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, w^3 <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Stopping link spam on the lists |
Date: | 2012-04-07 01:09:15 |
Message-ID: | 1333760608-sup-6258@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie abr 06 18:05:17 -0300 2012:
> "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> writes:
> >> And another thing I'd be in favor of is forcibly unsubscribing any
> >> account seen to have sent one of these.
>
> > +1, but I wonder if that matters - are these compromised accounts,
> > or simply throwaway ones?
>
> Does it matter? As long as they're spamming us more than once --- and
> they are --- zapping them would be worth doing, I think.
I always immediately unregister (which is to say, unsubscribe from all
lists and remove access to postgresql.org's Majordomo) any account from
which I see one of these link spam messages. The thing is, I'm not
subscribed to all lists, and I don't even read all those that I am
subscribed to. So many of these messages are passing unseen by me, and
the accounts are not unsubscribed until later.
As far as I see these accounts are all inactive accounts that subscribed
many years ago but are no longer receiving any list. This is common in
Yahoo accounts because they tend to cause a lot of bounces and so are
unsubscribed by Majordomo automatically.
The idea of moderating emails with a high spam score is probably worth
trying out. I'll have to research a bit how it's done though.
--
Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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