[drupal-devel] Dealing with spam (was rel=nofollow)

[Chris Messina]

I would like to go out on a limb and propose that we coordinate an
effort to create an open source anti-spam solution that can easily be
ported to the various OS CRM/Blog platforms, is centrally coordinated
(possibly by Drupal, but it really doesn't matter who takes it) and
provides best practices and avoidance techniques for website
administrators.

I know that this is going to perceived as just talk or a pipedream (I
have no idea how this would practically get done programmatically) but
I think that we need to consider how the open source community can, as
a whole, combat the spam issue. If we can somehow innovate on this, we
would gain both political clout and a reputation for ourselves as far
as working together to solve big problems (Google did it, but with a
focus on protecting its Blogger and search businesses).

Here are the projects that I think we should try and get on board:

* WordPress (I'll email Matt about this)
* TextPattern
* Xaraya
* phpBB

The goal of this effort is multifold.... Cut down on spam (duh);
create a unified effort to combat this project; develop consistent UIs
and module behaviors (email alerts, etc) for open source anti-spam
solutions; show the power of the open source community and its ability
to work together to solve shared problems.

Anyway, I know some folks who would be interested in participating in
this, so I just need to know what you guys think and if there's any
support for this within the Drupal community.

Looking forward to your feedback.

Chris

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:21:23 +0100, Bèr Kessels <berdrupal at tiscali.be> wrote:
> Op woensdag 19 januari 2005 13:57, schreef Jeremy Andrews:
> >  Specifically, I'll provide
> > the option to relate one or more actions with each filter type.
> 
> Have a look at actions.module. IT is quite new, and made for cases like this:
> Adding actions trought a frontend.
> 
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>  Bèr
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