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Moderating spam on a web-site and/or blog, sucks. Nothing else to say about that topic. While this can be solved and almost automated with a type of spam module, "they" still spam! What to do? Oh, how about the usage of a honeypot? In comes Project Honeypot ['dot'] org.

Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.

Next we add HTTP:BL (HTTP Blacklist), the drupal module.

Implementation of http:BL for Drupal. It provides IP-based blacklisting through http:BL and allows linking to a honeypot. http:BL allows blocking of email harvesters and comment spammers through a centralized DNS blacklist.

The process is fairly easy to set-up and install so long as you don't allow READ me to bully you around. First, join the projecthoneypot club by registering yourself and yoursite. Next, install the honeypot created by projecthoneypot. Then, add your access-key and configuration to Drupal's HTTP:BL settings.

Any extra bonus is, all grey-listed and blacklisted ips are logged to the Watchdog module (Drupal). Just today the honeypot project I'm running live caught 20 databased IP addresses and tagged them Grey or Black. What a shame, these poor bots just scan and index every link... Including the cz4rpwns trap. :-)