Use Project Honey Pot HTTP Blacklist for Spam Prevention

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Title:
Use Project Honey Pot HTTP Blacklist for Spam Prevention

Area:
spam prevention

Summary:
Project Honey Pot at http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ has a Blacklist available for catching comment spammers, link harvesters, and the like by IP.

It could be used by DW to block and/or better identify spammers.

Description:
First refer to the contents of:

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/services_overview.php
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/faq.php

The HTTP Blacklist could be included for either or both of:

1. realtime use on the Dreamwidth servers
2. Informational use by the spam prevention team when they need to look up an IP address

In addition it could be possible for dreamwidth to help out project honeypot also.

Poll #5118 Use Project Honey Pot HTTP Blacklist for Spam Prevention

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40

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Should be implemented as-is.
7 (17.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (7.5%)

(I have no opinion)
28 (70.0%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.5%)

Comments

[marahmarie]

+1

Last year some LJs got blacklisted. I was the one who blew that wide open in comments to the relevant LJ News post, but upon further examination by others, the blacklisting turned out to be a coincidence based on, I forget, but - the fact that those journals were getting more visits than usual? It was really odd, considering these were no-index, no-follow personal journals that got briefly popular for posting info on the link hijacking while it was in progress, getting spam blacklisted. Seeing that happen to those people's journals sort of burned me on blacklists.