Spam Analysis – ‘Spamalyzer’?
OK – here’s an idea to throw out to the masses, and something I reckon could take off quite nicely as a widget or whatever.
Could somebody please write a Spam analyzer (‘spamalyzer’/'spamalytics’ etc).
I think a little league table of hot spam topics might be a cool little tool. It should be easy enough to write something to trawl through the comments in your akismet queue and do some kind of keyword frequency breakdown.
You could extend it to geo-breakdown the originating IP to see what kind of spam comes from where, and produce daily/weekly charts of hot spam keywords, or perhaps analyse the originating email addresses and names. There’s a heap of variations out there - you might need to censor some of the keywords when outputting the information, but I reckon it’d make a cool little tool.
I could probably knock one up meself but I haven’t got the time – so if anyone out there wants to pick up on the idea and build one just let us know.
I don’t think there’s anything like it out there at the moment – I could be wrong of course but i had a quick search and couldn’t see anything that did this.
Over to you…
