On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 16:05, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 03:52:39PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 14:46, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> > After my pg_upgrade commit yesterday, I started receiving dozens of spam
>> > emails from github. I am not sure if it was because I was the
>> > committer, or because I am subscribed to the github postgres feed.
>> >
>> > Anyway, the spam has a URL at the bottom --- if you click on
>> > notifications on that page, you can see the spam, and if you click on
>> > the user name, and then under the tools gear icon, you can block the
>> > user or report them for spam (I recommend both).
>> >
>> > Eventually you will get an email stating they are investigating the
>> > user. I assume they will eventually figure out how to block this, but
>> > for now, I thought other github subscribers and committers should know
>> > about the problem.
>>
>> I have had this issue for well over a week by now. They don't seem
>> particularly keen on actually fixing it - they seem mostly happy with
>> having it removed from their website after the fact.
>>
>> I find the more efficient solution to go into your own github account
>> settings under "notification center" and just turn it all off.
>
> Yes, I just did turn it off because it happened again this morning. I
> was a little worried I might miss legitmate email,
Yeah, I'd be more worried if I was actually using all the github tools
for development. I just use it for code storage and such. The postgres
method of just using email lets the regular email tools do their job
on the spam that undoubtedly are created ther etoo, but they work much
better.
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