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

[Pablo F. <pa...@pa...>]

Hello,

> I guess a good approach is to record the IP along with the URLs=20
> contained in the comment. If  more than *2* comments being  reported as=20
> spam do come from the same IP, then it's a safe bet that it's actually=20
> spam. If more than *5* reported comments do have the same URLs it can be=20
> considered spam even if the IP is different.
> Of course those numbers should be fine tuned to get the best results.

That's ok, but I have a question: The IP will be of the submitter or of
the URL? Wherever the ip comes, I don't see much case. Why?

* Lets suppose that the IP comes from the submitter, what makes you sure
that there's no trojan/virus in the computer of the user that is
spamming your site?. Maybe it's not the user.. it's the computer with a
windoze infected.
* Now, lets suppose that you mean the IP of the url. That's worst cause
there's no warranty that the URL will resolve (maybe its fake).=20

> Even when a post is considered spam the submitter should have the chance=20
> to prove the system wrong. To acomplish this, in the case a comment is=20
> considered as spam the submitter is presented with a turing test to=20
> prove he is a human :)

That sounds nice ;-)

Before I came to the school I read the reply of Jon. He says that the
antispam thingie should work in the URL, that's nice, a BlackList for
URL should work, the list will get bigger, but that's a solution.

Now, sorry to be so pessimist with my comments. But two years ago I
worked in a company building a system in Perl that will send TONS of
spam mails to a big list (of 1 giga, one address by line). They have
some restrictions to send their spam (thats why I accepted). Some of the
things that I built was a nice algorithm in Bayesian that will be
'learning' how to send mails, you know, which mails first, which mails
afters.. a nice queue, etc..

So, if I did that, I can't imagine that other companies have more
powerfull algorithms than the app I developed.

Greetings,
Pablo
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