Re: which anti-spam plugins should contrib include?

<quote who="Ryan Barrett" date="Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 12:31:51AM -0800">
> mako's akismet plugin is definitely a candidate, as are the captcha
> plugins.

nospam is pretty good. The current released version is *way* too easy
and has been defeated thousands of times on my site alone. I've built a
more difficult CAPTCHA which I believe was formatted to this list at
one point. I have a few more tweaks for it but I've stopped using it
myself in favor of Akismet which is a bit less effective but it fully
accessible to users with visible disabilities.

> pyblosxom doesn't yet have a plugin that allows site owners
> to moderate comments themselves, but that might eventually be another
> candidate.

I'd like to see something general that I could actually use in addition
to the Akismet plugin. Right now, I "reject" spam comments by just
tossing them out. While I have no reports of false positiives, a better
idea would be able to "reject" spam into a moderation queue where it
could be tossed out and/or sent back to Askimet as spam/ham.

> right now, i'm leaning toward including akismet and javascript. what
> do you all think? how many plugins should we include? what should the
> default setup be? should we continue with the inevitable arms race
> after the first release?

We should. A good spam plugin is the difference between me having
comments or not and blog comments are extremely important to me.

Regards,
Mako

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Benjamin Mako Hill
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