Looking for someone to work with me on a slightly bigger 'hack'

[HuangA]

As TVB, ManagerJosh and myself have some what chatted about in this thread, I am going to get started on working on a hack that'd do something ManagerJosh have suggested. For those that doesn't want to read, basically, I want to create a hack that'd allow administrators to report IP addresses and email addresses of spammers to a centralized database, and also allow administrators to 'patch' their forums by downloading a list of IP addresses and email addresses of spammers and automatically add to their banned list.

Conceptually speaking, this isn't too complicated, all we need is some basic php coding and dedicated group of people to check that none of the reported IP addresses are dialup address and or public access point address (so people don't ban random innocent people from their sites), as well as some means to evaluate whether or not an email address claimed is bogus (IE: "I hate my next seat neighbour because he won't let me copy his final exam, so I submit his email address to the database to make him suffer" type of submission). I can temporarly provide hosting (on a shared hosting server) for the database, as well as take lead in the coding process. If anyone is interested to join in and help contribute (IE: code, suggestions etc.), I'm open for all sorts of comment.

The outcome of this will result in a coauthored hack that we'll post here on vb.org and allow license holders to download and 'patch' their banned list. If Jelsoft can provide a mean to allow our backend to check for license validness, please let me know as well so I can incorporate that to hammer the unlicensed people

Cheers!