Re: [Jaws-project-developers] More spam ideas

[Francisco G. <fco...@gm...>]

Mmm....

I don't like blacklists. The blacklist can grow indefinitely and the
mantenience can be a time-consuming task.

Also, the spammers can use a non-existent random address that cannot
be effectively blocked with a blacklist system. (I think about email
addresses).

Perhaps I don't understand very well how the blacklist system can be
implemented in order to block the comment spam, and out there could
exist  something very useful that can be helpfull.

Maybe something like SpamAssassain from Apache Foundation could be
used to detect comments that are actually spam, and prevent it can be
posted.

Just my opinion.

Greetings.

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:13:41 +0000, Jon Wood <jo...@je...> wrote:
> I've just been reading about possible comment spam prevention and found
> a suggestion (sadly not credited to anyone) of a central web service
> which can be queried to check if an address is blacklisted.
> 
> Could we host something like this off jaws.com.mx for Jaws users (and
> probably anyone else who wants to implement it for their software). This
> could be integrated with the control panel, allowing people to submit
> addresses for blacklisting.