http://blog.bbprotection.net The road to launching a revolutionary anti-spam service Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:51:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The whole bbProtection team wishes all visitors to this blog a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Hopefully the New Year will bring a new method of protecting your bulletin boards from spammers :-D . http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/12/25/merry-christmas/ This entry has been cross-posted from my own personal blog. Those of you who are following the bbProtection project may also find this piece of news useful. I personally like the work that Dave is doing to ensure the continued success of phpBB2 and thus we will more than likely ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/12/09/phpbb2-refugees-launches/ The true cost of spam can be hard to quantify. There is the cost of the time spent cleaning up spam, which I recently wrote about on another blog. (In that post I determined that a few simple anti-spam measures had saved me $20,000 worth of time after just over ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/12/05/how-much-does-spam-cost/ If you are wondering why the idea of bbProtection was conceived then this is the post for you. Dave and I have been running some honeypots to catch spammers, their trends and their general behaviour for a few months now and its time to give a general idea on how ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/11/23/just-how-big-is-the-spam-problem-10000-posts-and-counting/ One of many podcasts that I currently subscribe to is the Geek News Central podcast by Todd Cochrane, which runs alongside his successful site at geeknewscentral.com. I noticed a post by him citing a new type of comment spam that he and others had started to see happening on blogs that ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/11/01/new-style-of-comment-spam/ For those of you on the social networking "scene", this may be of interest to you. We've now got our very own bbProtection Facebook group :D . It's an open door, so join and tell your friends who may be interested in the project to join as well. Also, look out ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/10/18/bbprotection-facebook-group/ The Story So Far... In the first post in this series I started talking about how the Wordpress service Akismet compares to bbProtection. While the concept behind both services is very similar, the target audience and data structures are quite different. The first major difference that I called out for consideration ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/09/01/comparing-bbprotection-to-akismet-for-wordpress-part-ii/ I am writing this post in anticipation of the question: Why bbProtection? Why not simply write a MOD for phpBB (or insert-board-here) using the Akismet API instead? It's a fair question, and one that I think should be reviewed. After all, if someone else has already done the hard work, ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/08/26/comparing-bbprotection-to-akismet-for-wordpress-part-i/ For those of you who aren't aware, Londonvasion 2008 was phpBB's first conference style event. Our very own Dave Rathbun presented about the spam problem facing board owners and his attempts to try and prevent it. The presentation is well worth a watch and is also downloadable from the Londonvasion page, ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/08/23/daves-spam-talk-at-londonvasion-2008/ Well, where to start... I'm Vic D'Elfant, in charge of the development of bbProtection for both the first beta and the new, upcoming version. Apart from my team position here at bbProtection, I'm also a member of the phpBB Development Team and run a software company in the Netherlands, Coronis. It ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/08/20/meet-vic-delfant/