Re: New Comment Spam Plugin.

<quote who="Michael Olson" date="Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 10:00:24AM -0400">
> "Blake Winton" <blake-dlUKtbW3TlBcVw/[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > The attached plugin runs all comments through Akismet,
> > to determine whether they're spam or not.
> >
> > I just whipped it up last night, so if anyone has any
> > ideas on how to improve it, I'm all ears.
> >
> > You'll need to install the akismet python library from
> > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#akismet
> >
> > Also on that page are instructions on how to get the
> > required 'akismet_key' config variable.  (The page calls
> > it a "Wordpress Key".)
> 
> This plugin is working great so far.  One thing that I miss is the
> ability to tell akismet that a comment is spam.  One possible way of
> accomplishing this would be to make a standalone command-line program
> that can be run locally.  Whenever I receive a spam comment, all I
> would have to do is pipe the complete text of the emailed comment (or
> just paste the initial fields + comment content) to it.

I started writing such a program yesterday. Perhaps I'll finish up
today. :)

Regards,
Mako



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