Project Honey Pot
I think it's safe to say that we all hate spam. Whether it's email spam or comment spam, something needs to be done about it. That's where Project Honey Pot comes in. By installing a small script on your website you can help, and be apart of a massive movement to catch and eradicate spammers and email harvesters.
Project Honey Pot is a sophisticated system designed to trap spam bots and report them to various blacklisting services like SpamHaus, OpenRBL, SpamCop, Google and several others.
There are several options for webmeisters to contribute to Project Honey Pot. You can install a honey pot on your site someplace. This is a single file that can be placed anywhere on your site, and called anything you want it to be. Then you can link to it with hidden links embedded into your website that your visitors do not see but spam bots do. I built a Mango Blog plugin to help with this part. More on that below. The second option is to install a quick link to another site that does have a honeypot installed. and lastly you can help out by donating an MX record to the project. This gives the project a trackable email address, to help identify spammers. If your interested in donating an MX record, or obtaining a quick link please go to the Project Honey Pot site and read more about it there.
In the last year, I have personally helped catch 25+ harvesters from just one honey pot. Imaging how many more can be caught if everyone that used Mango Blog had a honey pot! That's exactly why I created the Honey Pot plugin for Mango Blog. It makes it that much easier to run a honey pot on your site. You need only to snag a honey pot script from the Project Honey Pot site, upload it to your server and activate it. Then using the plugin provided here, specify the location of your honey pot and that's it. The plugin will randomly install the hidden honey pot links on all of your sites pages. Viola!
If your using the CFFormProtect plugin (and I hope you are) By creating your account with Project Honey Pot, you now have the ability to get an API key that you can use with the CFFormProtect plugin. Having your own API key adds comment spam protection and helps to build a list of known spammers. As you can see this is a great relationship to have both plugins working together to fight spam. And that's good for everyone!
Download the Project Honey Pot Plugin
- Plugin version:
- 0.1
- Last Updated:
- 2009-11-10
- Requires:
- Mango Blog 1.3+
- Auto-install URL:
- http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/honeypot.zip
Tags: Mango Blog · Plugins
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