Re: Testing mail list

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Testing mail list
Date: 2007-12-19 16:24:25
Message-ID: 20071219162425.GH9937@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > It's worse than that in this case. This is an *impressively* broken
> > configuration.
>
> Understatement of the week. The mail includes absolutely no evidence
> about what message is allegedly being filtered. Are you sure that
> this is really a filtering engine at all, and not just random spam
> hoping to draw responses from careless people? I've heard of web
> comment-spammers who try to get other people to decode captchas
> for them this way.
>
> Adding to my suspicion is that I don't recall having seen one of these
> personally, and if it were really tied to posting on any of the PG
> lists, I shoulda seen a lot ;-)

Yeah, I think it comes from pgsql-performance. I just got one
mentioning an address to which I had responded some minutes before.

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

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