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

7 points by mishmash ↗ HN
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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gtani
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044

there might be a more current one in searchyc.com

mishmash
Awesome, thanks!
pg
I just emailed you the latest, but considering the content you may find it's in your spam folder.
mlLK
So is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 out of date?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?
pg
Even the list I emailed mishmash is out of date, now.
mishmash
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?

mishmash
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... :)

mlLK
Now, I think the 'out of date' idiom is out of date.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)'