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Have any one thought of this beore?
How about adding a "bad word" dictionary to the links 2.x? And how about adding a "black list of URLs"? Have any one made these mods already?
When your site starts to grow, how many spam submitters are you going to get?

Sincerely,

Pasha

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Hello Pasha!

What I think is that there should also be a keyword filter.

This means during submission the routine goes through a check in the list of keywords. Therefore sites related to adult content will never be listed if certain (SHHHHH) keywords are listed there. One could also list yahoo as a keyword there are all the masked email submission addresses will never be listed.

I receive 150 submissions per day with many masked email addresses.The same site submits and resubmitts different pages of the website. These are basically only for a few days or months. Later the content changes to (....Censored...!). I was simply visiting links installed by me. I banged in to a webpage where a huge photo came up that made me so angry that I immediately shut my computer and even forgot that I should close the OS!!!

Not so easy to be a webmaster.

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I would get a shot gun, and kill the damn spammer (well, if I could). Some body got my email (may be from my website or from here???), and sent me an ad with naked pix and all the other adult related spam! The message was so huge, I had to download it few minutes. Frown Just hate those guys! Frown

Well any way, Rajani, keyword filter is also a great idea. I have found a code by Matthew M. Wright, it's a "free for all links". And his script has the features we need; but the only problem is: how to incorporate his code into Links? You can find his script at: http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/

here's some useful code:


########### Check for restricted words in the title.

open (FH, "badwords.txt");

while (<FH> ) {

chop $_;

if ($title =~ /\s$_\s/i &#0124; &#0124; $title =~ /^$_\s/i &#0124; &#0124; $title =~ /\s$_$/i) {

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head><title>Sorry, There's A Restricted Word In Your Title!</title></head>\n";
print "<body bgcolor=white><br><center><font size=5 color=blue>\n";
print "<b>Sorry, There's A Restricted Word In Your Title!</b></font><br><br>\n";
print "<b>Please hit your browser's \"back\" button and try again.</b></center><br>\n";
exit;

}

}

close (FH);



########### Check for restricted URLs.

open (FH, "badurls.txt");

while (<FH> ) {

chop $_;

if ($url =~ /$_/i) {

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head><title>Sorry, You Can't Post A Link To That URL Here!</title></head>\n";
print "<body bgcolor=white><br><center><font size=5 color=blue>\n";
print "<b>Sorry, You Can't Post A Link To That URL Here!</b></font><br><br>\n";
print "<b>Please hit your browser's \"back\" button and try again.</b></center><br>\n";
exit;

}

}

close (FH);

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This 'looks' easy, I'll try to add these two in Links 2.0. Any suggestion, will help. Or may be some one already have done this part?

Regards,


Pasha

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Oops, forgot to ask. Have any one got a database of dirty (restricted) URLs?
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I believe one of the parental lockout services such as NetNanny or one of the other regularly publishes lists of adult website for just this purpose.

VIncent
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Hello !

I have gotta Bad URL file. This file is in the form of html format. It is a list of defamous websites or domains. They are the spammers, sexsites, unsolicited emailers, and all kind of websites that is so to say "Not wanted on the internet"!!!

Who wants it? I can only email. I cannot ultimately paste it on this ultimate BB. The html is itself about 25 KB.

let me know

gossamer@rajani.com














[This message has been edited by rajani (edited February 18, 1999).]