Smart Spam Filtering For Forums and Blogs? 183
phorm writes "While filtering for spam on email and other related mediums seems to be fairly productive, there is a growing issue with spam on forums, message-boards, blogs, and other such sites. In many cases, sites use prevention methods such as captchas or question-answer values to try and restrict input to human-only visitors. However, even with such safeguards — and especially with most forms of captcha being cracked fairly often these days — it seems that spammers are becoming an increasing nuisance in this regard. While searching for plugins or extensions to spamassassin etc I have had little luck finding anything not tied into the email framework. Google searches for PHP-based spam filtering tends to come up with mostly commercial and/or more email-related filters. Does anyone know of a good system for filtering spam in general messages? Preferably such a system would be FOSS, and something with a daemon component (accessible by port or socket) to offer quick response-times."
Re:the solution is here .. (Score:4, Funny)
Yea, design an email system that is immune to spam and make the ISPs responsible for blocking spam, phishing and such attacks ..
So, I know people sometimes DRTFA. It happens. Life is busy. But, you know, it's always good to RTFS because it has fancy little tidbits of information such as:
While searching for plugins or extensions to spamassassin etc I have had little luck finding anything not tied into the email framework.
Re:"I am a robot" field (Score:5, Funny)
Great idea, and it has the side-effect of keeping idiots out too :)
Re:"I am a robot" field (Score:5, Funny)
And the robots. Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and I keep getting banned from forums. *sigh*
If Viagra were free... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Bad Idea (Score:2, Funny)
Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
Sorry. Had to. Just a little jab at people who feel the need to point that out all the time.
Anonymous Coward to prevent a serious Karmic Backlash from people who can't take a joke.
Re:Second that! (Score:3, Funny)
My question is: If I can't read them, am i a robot?
well, let's see. would you injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm?