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[BeDifferentSolutions]

We all get hit with fraud, chargeback abusers, Spammers, etc.. They and abuse you, then get nuked, and move on to the next host.

Does anyone know of a script that does the following -

Allows you to add your account abusers domain names to the script. Each night (week or month, whatever) it will do Whois's on those domains. It then auto generates a "postmaster and/or abuse@newhost.com" e-mail that has a templated message stating something like "Hello new host. The site <domain> was termainted for <whatever>. We are jsut sending you a warning"

I think something like this would be great to warn others. We got an e-mail from another host telling us they canceled some Spammers site and he moved to us. Before his DNS changed, we were able to terminate. Cost him more time. If a lot ofhost used a similar script/program, we could attempt to keep these scum bags on the run faster then what they are use too.

After a while, maybe the program/script gets popular and you can add some logo saying "Host watch Guarded" or something to where it links to a definition of what we do to accounts that abuse the system. Maybe after a while it would catch on.

Anyway, is there a scipt or something similar? We really would like to help out other host by advance warning.

[ebo]

I doubt there is one. But it most likely wouldn't be to hard to make. Maybe if someone paid a programmer to do it, then they distributed it everywhere, it could turn into a real popular thing. I'd use it.

[SoftWareRevue]

I'd use it in a heart-beat.
Sounds like a splendid idea.





hmmm . . . . Did I just agree with Billy?

[Choppy]

Come on all you open source boys and girls,,,

weres the script already?

hahah

[BeDifferentSolutions]

hmmm . . . . Did I just agree with Billy?

Dennis, you agree with me 99.934% of the time. You just don't want to admit it publically.

[SoftWareRevue]

Originally posted by UmBillyCord


Dennis, you agree with me 99.934% of the time. You just don't want to admit it publically.

Wha? Huh? Whatever do you mean? Could not be so.









pssssst . . . . Billy . . . . . . I'll PM you my real thoughts.

[DWood]

if i knew anything, i would make it for you

[Adam_S]

The only problem this would have is that some website "competitors" can fake a black listing of a site.

Perhaps a PGP signed mail to a central repository would help. A webhost subscription will provide you information to previous reports on a domain.

This means as soon as someone signs up to an account with you and types in the domain, much like a whois lookup, you could search to see if there is a history on the domain that you would not except. For example 3 instances of "534: Chargeback claimed"

If someone abuses your system then you can have a template, PGP signed mail sent to the repository site that will add details of the abuse to the domains history.

I could code this. Don't have the time though.. doing bigger things.

Sound feasible to you?