[ php-blog-Feature Requests-1494668 ] Selfblocking Spambots

Feature Requests item #1494668, was opened at 2006-05-25 00:34
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Category: Administrative functions
Group: None
Status: Open
>Priority: 3
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Assigned to: Garvin Hicking (garvinhicking)
Summary: Selfblocking Spambots

Initial Comment:
When an IP submits a comment that is being classified 
as spam, the score counter for that IP is 
incremented.

When an IPs score counter surpasses a threshold, that 
IP is marked as a spambot IP in the database.

A cron function or remote request triggers a script 
that will extract all spambot IPs and builds 
a .htaccess blacklist which will contain all 
currently blacklisted IPs. This will block spambots 
at the HTTP level greatly improving speed for the 
rest of the blog.

Spambot IPs leave the blacklist after an inactivity 
of n hours automatically. 24hrs are suggested 
(auto-timeout of DSL dialup IPs).


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>Comment By: Garvin Hicking (garvinhicking)
Date: 2006-05-25 10:50

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That's a good sggestion, I'll implement it when I have time.
If other people want to propose patches, that would also be
great!

Regards,
Garvin

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