On 16 Mar 2013, at 18:34, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:
> On 03/15/2013 09:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
>>> On 03/15/2013 07:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> (I am only about one or two more spams away from
>>>> summarily blocking all yahoo traffic from my own mail server, btw.
>>>> They account for easily a third of all the spam I'm seeing lately.)
>>
>>> yeah abuse on yahoo accounts is really bad, but I don't think we can
>>> block those in general...
>>
>> TBH, I think Yahoo doesn't give a damn about their spam problem because
>> they think they're too big for anybody to block them. It's not going to
>> get better until some people start to do so anyway.
>
> yeah yahoo seems to be unable to deal with them - there is tons of
> discussions about the yahoo DKIM-signed-"only a link" spam on the
> spamassassin lists for example and some people consider it the "#1 spam
> problem" there...
>
>
> However - I still don't think we can seriously consider blocking all of
> yahoo inbound - what do others think about this?
>
Sooner or later someone has to make a stand.
Disclaimer: I'm with Devrim in London. And England just lost to Wales.