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ASk HN: Handy domain blacklists to preload a new site with?

7 pointsmishmash10 comments

About to launch a major update to our anonymous network, socialface.com, and we'll be adding a /news style system to the works.

Being a single dev and enjoying daily periods of sleep, I'm looking to minimize the spammers as quickly as possible and was hoping to preload a couple thousand blacklisted domains or so.

I'm not looking for email spammers, or bad IPs specifically, but a list of known social news style domain spammers.

Any tips or similar experience would appreciated?

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044

there might be a more current one in searchyc.com

Awesome, thanks!

I just emailed you the latest, but considering the content you may find it's in your spam folder.

Unbelievable thanks for sharing these. How wide or narrow were you wanting to keep their distribution?

Hopefully not too far, but so others could share in them:

http://gist.github.com/148247

So is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 out of date? I hate to sound pushy but could you post this as a text file or put it in some sort private repository?

Even the list I emailed mishmash is out of date, now.

It almost needs to be a private service API.

edit: for simplicity sake, maybe HN users with 100+ karma ;) see a top level "Spammers" link to a nightly text file?

Okay I've sleepily written a Ruby wrapper around the initial list you sent me, Ruby folks can get the code here:

http://github.com/oftenvoid/donuts/tree/master

TODO: would obviously be to move to a dynamic list at some point. Also, each domain is stored as ascii text, so it would probably make sense to hash them, etc.

Tasks for another day... :)

Now, I think the 'out of date' idiom is out of date. . .BTW, what's up with submission filter or how did saveie6.com end up in the index 3 times?

   google 'site:ycombinator.com (saveie6.com) AND (intitle:ie6 OR intitle:saveie6)'

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