Akismet anti spam support added
Like written in my other post, I added now akismet support to the Blog plugin (in trunk aka 1.5-dev). It's used as a last resort, when all our own checks don't catch it. So far, it's working great and already caught one of those handcrafted spam comments (all others were labeled as spam before akismet had to do anything)
If you want to use Akismet, you need your own API key from them, and put that into config.xml with the following lines
<blogAkismetKey>yourkey</blogAkismetKey>
and that's it. We will make that option available later also on the site-options page in the admin.
We used the Akismet PHP 5 class by Alex for a really easy integration of the service.
BTW, we still think that captchas are the wrong way to tackle the whole spam problem (they don't help with handcrafted comments or trackbacks anyway) and only discourage legitimate users to comment at all. With all our anti-spam features we have now, we should be on the right track to avoid having to use captchas even longer (hopefully forever). Nevertheless, there is captcha code in the CMS, which can be turned on via an option, it's just not really tested yet (as noone is using it :) )
Comments
Ben Tremblay
@ 23.12.2006 19:30 CESTHi there -
I've been getting spammed via my comment form; chregu suggested I notify you; see http://forum.freeflux.net/index.php?t=msg&th=273&rid=44#msg_1147
cheers
ben
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