[spam-stopper] A small akismet extension for updating htaccess

[Dirk Haun]

rich boakes wrote:

>Basically when you the user deletes an IP 
>address based offender from Akismet they have 
>the option of banning that address from 
>connecting in future.

A similar approach: I've ported Bad Behavior for Geeklog and when
Geeklog's spam filter detects spam, it can optionally report the
spammer's IP address to Bad Behavior. So it's Bad Behavior doing the
blocking, instead of the .htaccess.


>I think this potentially saves each server (and 
>the Akismet service) from an awful lot of work.

It's not quite as successful as one may think, as spammers often use
botnets or open proxies all over the place, so that identical spam is
often coming from a lot of different IP addresses.

bye, Dirk


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