Re: [CORE] Egad, what a lot of spammage

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-core(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [CORE] Egad, what a lot of spammage
Date: 2008-01-16 16:27:25
Message-ID: 20080116162725.GB5076@alvh.no-ip.org
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:33:31AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >
> > - --On Tuesday, January 15, 2008 21:43:23 -0800 "Joshua D. Drake"
> > <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > > I wonder if it would be possible to restrict the gateway so that if
> > > the only way it gets through is if the post "only" posts to pgsql.
> > > groups.
> >
> > I'll get that setup tonight ... I disabled usenet->mail last night
> > (mail->usenet still active) when Tom paged me ...
>
> Do we have any statistics of how many *legitimate* posts actually come
> thruogh that way? That aren't spam of any kind?

I don't know about statistics, but I did a simple search on the headers
and there certainly is people using the gateway to post.

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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