FWIW, a couple of months ago the anti-spam mail filters on our server started to reject "anything yahoo" (including loads of legit stuff, obviously). And I still see a lot of messages announcing that Ive just been subscribed to this or that yahoo discussion group. However, this is all OT, I suppose what we need here is just a way to signal spammers to the admin, is there any?
Bèrto On 9 December 2011 06:13, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <j...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > On 12/08/2011 03:12 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: > >> Just wondering, and without intending to cast any aspersions on the > >> poster - is this spam or legit? I didn't take the risk of actually > >> clicking it... > > > It is not legit in any way. > > Lately we've been seeing a lot of link-spam with just a link in the > body, generally no subject line, and the real tip-off is that it's > addressed To: both pgsql-general (or another of our lists) and half a > dozen random other addresses. > > I assume these are coming from addresses that are actually subscribed > to our lists, because otherwise the moderators should've rejected them. > Probably somebody's found a way to break into large numbers of yahoo > and google mail accounts and spam from them to all their address book > entries ... > > regards, tom lane > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- ============================== If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
