Travis Snoozy wrote:
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. :)
ok so maybe this needs to go beyond the single user. maybe we need to
find a way to have a list of IPs that is stored by automattic.
unfortunetly that means resuorces. aka money. and that is not what I
would like to see. not b.c I am trying to be a freeloader. but because
spam is crap. we all hate spam - those some of it cna be fun to read and
laugh at. and as it has been discussed before. Automattic would love to
give out more to make bloging easier but for that amount of spamming IPs
I think basically a whole new server is need to run and maintain this.
* sigh* sound like I have to just relie on easy ban. ... I hate doing
this manually
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