[geeklog-spam] Wikispam blacklist

[Dirk Haun]

Dirk Haun wrote:

>So, if you want to try this out, you can re-install the old MT-Blacklist
>modules

Looks like I'm the only one using this ;-)

I've bundled the necessary files now and put them up on geeklog.net:
<http://www.geeklog.net/nightly/spam-merge.tar.gz>

If you already have some MT-Blacklist entries in your database (i.e. if
you're on Geeklog 1.4.0 or older), you may want to get rid of those so
that you can import the spam-merge list instead:

  DELETE FROM gl_spamx WHERE name = 'MTBlacklist';

From a technical point of view, this appears to be working nicely and
updates show up in the RDF feed. Can't tell how effective it is, though,
since I had only installed it on geeklog.info where I'm also
aggressively blocking IP addresses.

I've installed it on two more sites now and would like to invite others
to do the same so that we can see if it helps us in any way.


Also, since we're currently "leeching" from the Wiki communities, I was
thinking about how we could be giving back.

In a way, isn't this a light-weight version of Mike's SWOT proposal[1]?
The Python script can import MT-Blacklist-style lists from any number of
URLs, merge them together and provide them as one blacklist.

So we could easily be starting our own list(s) and merge them. We could
even use the Python script to cascade or chain them since the input and
output formats are identical (I would need to roll the shell scripts
that currently produce the RDF feed into the Python script, though).

Thoughts?

bye, Dirk

[1] <http://swot.fuckingbrit.com/>


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