[RFC] Improved AntiSpam Countermeasures by default

[bonelifer]

They do have free accounts but none the less they also have "coporate/commercial" accounts. At the end of the day they are charging those people for the same info that is free at SFS. Which Botscout itself is stealing from SFS, which is a violation of SFS's Terms of Use.

[MartinTruckenbrodt]

Hello bonelifer,

They do have free accounts but none the less they also have "coporate/commercial" accounts.

What's the problem here?

Do you have a source for your statement about the stolen data thing?

Bye Martin

[MartinTruckenbrodt]

Hello bonelifer,
I asked at the SFS (Registered Members Only) forum: Yes, BotScout used SFS data in a not allowed way. But they did it only for a short period. And then they stopped it till today. It's more than one year ago.

Bye Martin

[bantu]

I'd be interested in seeing a more technical description of how a plugin-friendly spam-prevention-system could work.

Also, please note that submitting a network address to a third party might not be legal in some juristications. Even worse for passing full posts.

[MartinTruckenbrodt]

Hello Andreas,
I've sent you a (german language) PM.

Bye Martin

[jsebean]

I'd be interested in seeing a more technical description of how a plugin-friendly spam-prevention-system could work.

Also, please note that submitting a network address to a third party might not be legal in some juristications. Even worse for passing full posts.

I see.

Another great way to provide good antispam, is the captcha shown here: http://www.phpbbsmith.com/projects/phpb ... ation.html and Microsoft has one here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/ ... ts/asirra/

they don't prevent "human spam" but they are by far, the best captchas I've ever used. The only way a bot can break through is if they get it at random, a bot can't tell the difference between a cat, a house, a dog, whatever. Something like those kind of captchas would be really nice, and it wouldn't necessarily rely on a third party. (Unless you use Asirra, but how would that be different from Recaptcha anyway?).

What I'm saying is phpBB needs a lot better spam prevention methods in the core, so that people can easily prevent spam without having to use mods/plugins etc.

[Danielx64]

Also, please note that submitting a network address to a third party might not be legal in some juristications. Even worse for passing full posts.

Can you explain how that is the case?

[jsebean]

Also, please note that submitting a network address to a third party might not be legal in some juristications. Even worse for passing full posts.

Can you explain how that is the case?

Some countries have laws that would make it illegal for "private information" be passed to a third party. It depends on the laws what they concern is "private info", but email, IP address, etc "may" be considered private, and rightfully so, if info is being passed to a third party, it should be stated in a privacy policy. I can't give you a list of countries as I don't follow laws in other countries because it's hard enough for me to do that here in Canada as it is, but certainly believable.

That said, I still think it would be a good idea to include antispam features like better captchas (as I posted above), SFS integration, Akismet, even though they might not be allowed in some countries, it doesn't necessarily mean they have to use them, as they should be turned off by default anyway.

That said, when I put in the title "by default", I really meant included in the core by default.

[Danielx64]

Also, please note that submitting a network address to a third party might not be legal in some juristications. Even worse for passing full posts.

Can you explain how that is the case?

Some countries have laws that would make it illegal for "private information" be passed to a third party. It depends on the laws what they concern is "private info", but email, IP address, etc "may" be considered private, and rightfully so, if info is being passed to a third party, it should be stated in a privacy policy. I can't give you a list of countries as I don't follow laws in other countries because it's hard enough for me to do that here in Canada as it is, but certainly believable.

That said, I still think it would be a good idea to include antispam features like better captchas (as I posted above), SFS integration, Akismet, even though they might not be allowed in some countries, it doesn't necessarily mean they have to use them, as they should be turned off by default anyway.

That said, when I put in the title "by default", I really meant included in the core by default.

I didn't think that IP address was considered private, but anyway.

[jsebean]

Also, please note that submitting a network address to a third party might not be legal in some juristications. Even worse for passing full posts.

Can you explain how that is the case?

Some countries have laws that would make it illegal for "private information" be passed to a third party. It depends on the laws what they concern is "private info", but email, IP address, etc "may" be considered private, and rightfully so, if info is being passed to a third party, it should be stated in a privacy policy. I can't give you a list of countries as I don't follow laws in other countries because it's hard enough for me to do that here in Canada as it is, but certainly believable.

That said, I still think it would be a good idea to include antispam features like better captchas (as I posted above), SFS integration, Akismet, even though they might not be allowed in some countries, it doesn't necessarily mean they have to use them, as they should be turned off by default anyway.

That said, when I put in the title "by default", I really meant included in the core by default.

I didn't think that IP address was considered private, but anyway.

I knew someone would say that when I wrote it, I knew it. You get what I mean anyway