Wednesday, March 21
Got my first piece of spam since I moved across to mee.nu. Took a look at the automated spam filter, and the cupboard was bare.
Minx uses two spam filters: A conventional URL/IP filter fed from a honeypot system, and the statistical system called Snark that I wrote late in 2005 to deal with trackback spam at munu. Snark worked really well, getting rid of 99.8% of trackback spam with almost no false positives, until I accidentally clobbered its data files during the DDoS attacks. New Snark uses MySQL, of course, making it less likely for me to accidentally clobber it.
Unfortunately, (a) the honeypot isn't catching any flies and (b) one spam isn't enough to feed a statistical anti-spam engine.
I think, first, I need to fix the honeypot, and second, I need to fix the comment moderation screen. A Pixy's work is never done. Particularly when said Pixy embarks on major web development projects...
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S*P*A*M is only POPULAR in Hawaii. On the shelves, its a fairly decent (if oh-so-ordinary) product. In a blog-site its a pain in the kiester! Good work Pixy. I'm waiting with bated breath!
Gads, I love playing with the comment thingy!!!
Posted by: GM Roper at Thursday, March 22 2007 09:38 AM (S60yG)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, March 22 2007 10:31 AM (+rSRq)
Meanwhile, I've fixed the comment moderation screen, and put up the mee.nu smilies server. Still not sure what happened to the honeypot.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, March 22 2007 11:03 AM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Thursday, March 22 2007 07:00 PM (9imyF)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, March 22 2007 07:24 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, March 22 2007 07:43 PM (9Nz6c)
I'm expecting to use a combination of honeypot tricks (honeypot sites, hidden fields, URL rewriting) along with statistical analysis (the advantage of running hundreds or thousands of blogs on a common database is that you can see trends much more easily).
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, March 22 2007 09:57 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: GM Roper at Thursday, March 22 2007 11:00 PM (S60yG)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Friday, March 23 2007 06:46 PM (+rSRq)
I just spent over 3 hours today working with someone to update 1 single, poorly written, web page... sheesh! It's a group I belong to, and I had suggested that we get a pro to redo the page - I'm getting static from IDIOTS who won't lift a finger, about spending money for nothing. ARG!!!
So once again I say - All Hail Pixy! You're doing one hell of a job!
Posted by: Teresa at Friday, March 23 2007 07:49 PM (gsbs5)
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