[wp-testers] Aksimet banning?

[Andy Holtzmann]

Travis Snoozy wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:30:47 +1000, Jeremy Visser
> <jeremy.visser at gmail.com> 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