<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">jer</b> <<a href="mailto:jeremie@jabber.org">jeremie@jabber.org</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> Suggestion: I think the formation of a global spam URL/not-trusted URL<br>> system between Wikia, Mahalo, and other interested parties would be a<br>> great project. Basically have trusted parties insert untrusted links
<br>> into a database and parties can then use that data to block things<br>> like comment spam on their blogs, submitted URLs on social<br>> news/bookmarking sites (digg,propeller, delicious), or a search<br>> engine/service (Mahalo, Ask, etc).
<br><br>Yeah, that'd rock. After seeing all of the issues that the various<br>IP blacklisting group efforts have had, it's pretty daunting... not<br>to say it isn't worth taking on though. It's definitely something
<br>that the wiki-style administration of Grub could become though, I<br>just need to get some of those ideas half-way implemented so we can<br>all start to see how it feels in use.<br><br>Jer<br><br></blockquote></div><br>
Have you already read the stuff at MeatBall (<a href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SharedAntiSpam">http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SharedAntiSpam</a>) and the chongqed list (<a href="http://blacklist.chongqed.org/">
http://blacklist.chongqed.org/</a>)?<br><br>I really like the idea of a decentralized P2P type system. I'd love to see a list like Chongqed's as a standard but maybe with some more meta-data (date added, maybe? as described in "data format" on the meatball page) Then an aggregator script could collect them and apply the regex's as needed, subscribing only to trusted providers. Maybe this is already being done in some places. It looks like chongqed's format is the de-facto standard (I think wikipedia is the same format - don't know or care who did it first). Perhaps the next step is a list of people who publish their spam blacklists.
<br><br>Also, modifying the blacklist code so it tells you whose list is causing the block would be helpful, in case of false positives.<br><br>Aerik<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.wikidweb.com">http://www.wikidweb.com
</a> - the Wiki Directory of the Web