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Create RBL plugin

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
security

Research direction

No files, tests, or implementation entry points are named. Start by reviewing the issue discussion and the plugin registry's existing conventions, then define what restoring the RBL check for users of @rbl must include and how completion will be verified.

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Description

enhancement help wanted
Motivation

The reputation rules have been removed from the core.
The RBL check is now gone.

Proposed solution

For the users of @rbl we can bring it back as a plugin.

Dominant language
Python
Stars
53
Forks
13
Avg merge
7h 14m
Merged PRs (30d)
4

Getting set up

This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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