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

[Jon W. <jo...@je...>]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 21:20 +0100, DrSlump wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I guess a good approach is to record the IP along with the URLs 
> contained in the comment. If  more than *2* comments being  reported as 
> spam do come from the same IP, then it's a safe bet that it's actually 
> spam. If more than *5* reported comments do have the same URLs it can be 
> considered spam even if the IP is different.
> Of course those numbers should be fine tuned to get the best results.
> 
> Even when a post is considered spam the submitter should have the chance 
> to prove the system wrong. To acomplish this, in the case a comment is 
> considered as spam the submitter is presented with a turing test to 
> prove he is a human :)
> 
Just because someone can pass a Turing test doesn't mean they aren't a
spammer.

According to the sites I was reading a large number of spammers actually
seem to be doing it by hand, since they hit less common blogging tools
(such as Jaws I guess), which automated tools are likely to be
unavailable for.

Jon

> ciao,
> ivan
> 
> Francisco Garcia wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
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