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Rik Brown · #**641** 12-12-2008, 11:27 AM

Via our killfile we have blocked all urls over the years to prevent spam. Since our killfile has grown so large and probably blocks most spam and trash anyway, we are considering removing the blockage of urls from it and then post-process posts via mysql to remove any "non-approved" urls. We're probably going to try this on one newsgroup initially.

Our idea is to tag approved messages with some sort of marker at the last byte of the post if the url is OK. If the marker is not there and a url exists, the post would later get deleted.

Is anyone doing something like this with the mod? If so, what are your thoughts on the the matter (or am I just opening up a floodgate of spam)?

Thanks. -- Rik

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