FWIW I'd love to see this happen too. Alternatively, after the update is done it should give a list of the sites it added and ask if you want them all checked. You can hit "recheck" next to each banned name to search your hitlog table for the offender, but with roughly 1063 entries who's got a clue what needs to be checked?

EdB wrote:

... You can hit "recheck" next to each banned name to search your hitlog table for the offender, but with roughly 1063 entries who's got a clue what needs to be checked?

I do! http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=2985 is the quickie and http://wonderwinds.com/hackblog.php/2005/01/29/antispam_recheck_tool is the detailed version of a hack that identifies which banned keywords have not been rechecked.

So, would it be possible to implement this not as a hack but as a feature as follows:

Recheck All: [x]

This would recheck all domains in the local list.

Thoughts?

A b2e [url=http://inyourgrill.org/index/2005/02/02/site_back_up]site[/url] was just taken down by spam bots. They hit his site faster than he could delete them, and his ISP shut him down because of the traffic. My site has only been up for a couple of months, and I'm already starting to get spam trackbacks.

As an alternative solution, a [url=http://www.flatlandmedia.com/flatlander/]friend[/url] of mine uses [url=http://www.dasblog.net/documentation/]Newtelligence dasBlog[/url], and they have a tool that requires you to identify the letters in an image before being able to post or trackback, similar to the way Yahoo! or Hotmail would before creating an account.

I'm not sure how feasible this is, but it would make it much easier to protect ourselves. I don't think I'm a strong enough programmer to put together something this complex by myself, but I'd be willing to work together with someone.

http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=2976

Oh. That makes it pretty easy. Thanks!

I have a question related to the spamlist.
I am (pretty shure the most/only active) the one who is updating the spamlist in the background.
That means, if people report spam-potentials, I'm the one who validates that.
For the time being, there are about 650 spam-patientionals since 1 februari !.
It's becoming a very hard job to keep on track.
Many people don't update there blacklist, before posting new spam.
So I have to delete/deprecate a lot of posts, before I get to the real ones.

[b]advice [/b]: Please update your blacklist before reporting spam!!!

And another one :

many many spam is refering to poker, online-casino, loans, texas-holdem and texas-hold-em
It is possible that 1 in a million sites who have that word in there url are valid.
I want to add those words (yes they are short) as spamwords.
I can surround them by any punctuation possible to be shure.

Is somebody against that ?

I've banned keywords that - like you say - might ban a real site, but will catch more bad than good. When I do that I don't report them because (for example) "holdem" didn't actually spam me. Normally I do it when I see that the same keyword is showing up in the antispam table frequently. I allow the sites back in (green check) then ban the part they all had in common. Sometimes I might see foo.bar.com and blah.bar.com have spammed me, so I would not click the ban symbol. Instead I would go to the antispam tab and type in .bar.com then delete/ban/report it. The exception is like blogspot because they always use subdomains.

Each user of the antispam feature has to take the time to look at the list and wonder if they really want to ban the things that are on the list!