Re: Idea for comment spam. Use mt-blacklist's blacklist.

On Monday 27 September 2004 20:26, will guaraldi wrote:
> That'd work.  I tossed in blacklisted words handling into my local
> comments plugin (so it's only on my blog) and it's worked pretty well.  I
> can adjust that code to work with mt-blacklist without too much problem.
>
> I still think the best solution that currently exists for comment spam
> filtering is the human verification stuff:
>
>     http://notreally.org/blog/devel/Python/pybloxsomnospam

I have to say that since I wrote it, I have received 0 spam-comments, so I 
assume it works pretty well :). 

> I think different people will want to solve this using different methods
> that optimize on maintenance and performance and things of that nature.
> Given that, I think what I may do is adjust the code so that it uses a
> callback for spam-catching allowing people to implement their favorite
> spam catching heuristics in a plugin.  Then we can implement multiple spam
> catching plugins, each person can use their favorite method, and it can be
> extended and modified without adjusting the comments plugin itself.  That
> allows people to share their methods more easily and even use multiple
> plugins if they wanted to.

Yes, it sounds good to me. I (still) have the intention to improve the system 
aforementioned but my job's requiered almost every bit of my time since 
august. I hope to have some more free time in the next weeks so I can clean 
it up so you can integrate it more easily. 
But any of you are free to improve it. I think it's a key piece for busy 
pybloxom sites to keep them spam free.


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