MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Ok, Learning Curve... I'll share...

OK, here's the "must do" list I found on many forum admin advice sites:

There is a community project that tracks spammers:

Project Honeypot

You add a honeypot onto your domain, so they can detect new spam bot spiders that visit your url, and add them to their database. [edit: it also catches harvesters] It's a tiny 79kb file.

Moreover, you add the following mods to your server:

httpBL mod

Stop Spammers mod

The first blocks known spam spiders (from the Honeypot database) from even being able to get access to your url.

The second is in case humans are working the registrations to create spam manually. It allows you to tag them as if they were a spam spider, and report them to the Honeypot project. Apparently humans are doing what bots used to do. (Which is BS... all these humans are going to be taking jobs away from robots in the future... robots unite!)

Many sites claimed these two mods, which are designed to work together, using Honeypot's database, will block 99.999% of your spam traffic.

I've had mine up and running about an hour, and no new spam in that time, and the spam log is registering the fact that it is already blocking many of the sources I was having to do manually. I even got ballsy and disabled my banlist to see what happens, and the spam log right away started noting hits from my previously banned sites... which were already on the honeypot registry and banned them again for me.

Noice. I like. If MW is basically spam-free... I bet Twisty already did all of the above.. or some such similar situation.

Thought I'd share.

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Edited by Gatinho (01/28/13 04:21 AM)