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January 18, 2005
Webhost scorecard related to spammers
Paul Beard had a brilliant idea he posted as a comment on Gary's place:
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Yeah, I have been getting hit with this as well. It’s such a waste of effort since so few sites display referer information (and fewer still once they see how they are abused for their trouble).
What puzzles me is how colocation and broadband providers never seem to monitor their networks well enough to see this: if individual sites can see these storms, I imagine are even easier to see on the sending side.
I suppose the only recourse is to ensure no reputable business uses shoddy hosting providers: perhaps we need to start publishing a score card that tracks what provider networks are responsible for the most outbound crap.
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Ann Elisabeth: And let me expound on it by saying we could have a scorecard for admins - places there are open proxies. Which means clueless or forgetful admins.
And a scorecard for webhosts - those that allow spammers to keep existing on their networks.
But really, who'd be interested in setting up a system like Paul suggests? Can anyone interested discuss this? What would it take, exactly what would be the best solution softwarewise? How much testing would be necessary? I suppose at the very least we should have log entries to back it up, then double check tracing.
Posted by Ann at January 18, 2005 12:55 PM
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You know, a weblog would be a great way to do this scorecard: perhaps something like Drupal that works well as a multi-user site.
On the comment spam front, I am still pleased with Elliot Back's plugin for WP: I'm not seeing any spam. I see the hits come in, but that's as far as it gets, like watching waves break on the seawall as you watch from a safe warm place.
http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2004/11/29/spam-stopgap-extreme/ for more details.
Posted by: Paul at January 20, 2005 09:40 PM