Major updates to blog/referer spam defense system

[Bob Apthorpe <ap...@cynistar.net>]

Hi,

I've developed a web access policy manager (blacklister) to defend 
against referrer and blog comment spam and other forms of web service abuse.

In addition to the original Apache combined log import filter, I've 
added Wordpress v1.5 and Movable Type v2.661 support which should 
provide other blog developers and hackers ample opportunity to create 
their own import filters.

It is completely functional and can publish policies (blacklists) as 
text files, regular expressions (PCRE), RSS feeds, rbldnsd zone files, 
and iptables firewall rulesets.

The source code, documentation, and all that is at 
<http://www.austinimprov.com/~apthorpe/code/policy_manager/>

The code is in very good shape for installation, testing, and 
development. The API is fully documented through the miracle of 
phpDocumentor (http://www.phpdoc.org/), and the web pages are all 
template-generated through the miracle of Smarty 
(http://smarty.php.net/), so I believe the underlying code is fairly 
developer-friendly. The INSTALL file is about as complete as I could 
make it without sending a sysadmin to your doorstep. It's by no means a 
one-click install but I've tried to list the expected skills and 
software dependencies so there shouldn't be too many surprises.

The most pressing needs are a catchy name and a good OSI-compatible 
license. Feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks much,

-- Bob
<ap...@cynistar.net>

Re: Major updates to blog/referer spam defense system

[ma...@annelisabeth.com]

Hi Bob,

Sounds good.

I could give this to my regulars first for feedback, then send to a few 
more. Some are sys admins, I think.

Unless you want me to publish it right away?

Let me know.

I'll send the stuff to the regulars right away, and hold off on publication 
on the blog until you give the word.

Regards
Ann Elisabeth

On 11 Mar 2005 at 0:40, Bob Apthorpe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've developed a web access policy manager (blacklister) to defend 
> against referrer and blog comment spam and other forms of web service abuse.
> 
> In addition to the original Apache combined log import filter, I've 
> added Wordpress v1.5 and Movable Type v2.661 support which should 
> provide other blog developers and hackers ample opportunity to create 
> their own import filters.
> 
> It is completely functional and can publish policies (blacklists) as 
> text files, regular expressions (PCRE), RSS feeds, rbldnsd zone files, 
> and iptables firewall rulesets.
> 
> The source code, documentation, and all that is at 
> <http://www.austinimprov.com/~apthorpe/code/policy_manager/>
> 
> The code is in very good shape for installation, testing, and 
> development. The API is fully documented through the miracle of 
> phpDocumentor (http://www.phpdoc.org/), and the web pages are all 
> template-generated through the miracle of Smarty 
> (http://smarty.php.net/), so I believe the underlying code is fairly 
> developer-friendly. The INSTALL file is about as complete as I could 
> make it without sending a sysadmin to your doorstep. It's by no means a 
> one-click install but I've tried to list the expected skills and 
> software dependencies so there shouldn't be too many surprises.
> 
> The most pressing needs are a catchy name and a good OSI-compatible 
> license. Feedback would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> -- Bob
> <ap...@cynistar.net>
> 
> 

Regards
Ann Elisabeth
http://www.annelisabeth.com/blog/
http://spamhuntress.com/