On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:30:47 +1000, Jeremy Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andy Holtzmann wrote: > > hey I am not sure how else to get a hold of such an open-to-idea > > group of Automattic developers. this isn't really for WP but for > > akismet. what if you had the option of banning ip that are caught > > as spam. not a definite "oh you spamed me" but you know your friend > > comments with links to make a point, so Akismet catches it. but > > just a way to automatically ban spam bots and what not. > > You mean, like adding whitelists and blacklists? Perhaps a bozo-type > (ref: bbPress) approach by bozo'ing IP addresses would help. Initially, I thought this would be a good idea, too -- to just totally ban the IP addresses that were spamming me -- and I did this manually for a while (though I forget how I was accomplishing this). However, what I've found is that spam comes from so many different addresses, banning by IP is pretty ineffective. I have only had a handful of spam comments come from the same address, and that's usually within the same batch. I don't know what the overhead is like for checking IPs against a list before allowing/disallowing a post, but my guess is that the cost of maintaining a huge list of IPs and checking that list per-post is going to cost more CPU & memory than it's worth. Just my $0.02, though. :) -- Travis _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
