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

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Do we have any statistics of how many *legitimate* posts actually come
>> thruogh that way? That aren't spam of any kind?

There are quite a number of regular contributors who prefer to read the
lists via usenet.  We can't just permanently shut down that link; I only
suggested it as a temporary measure until this spam attack could be
brought under control.

> Even if we do it would be easy enough to say.. Hey if you are posting to 
> rec.arts.wannabe.a.bondage.queen and pgsql.general, that the post is 
> likely offtopic.

Agreed, though probably stuff in comp.databases.* ought to be allowed.
        regards, tom lane