Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Stopping Spam

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 19 Apr 2006, at 15:23, Matthew McNaney wrote:

> The akismet solution looks nice however it requires a Wordpress API  
> key.
> They are filtering off site on their own servers. Is there an more  
> open
> solution out there?
>

The code itself is GPLd but running servers to keep track of spam  
signatures isn't likely to ever be a free thing. It's free for non- 
commercial use though. As a plugin thing that you can choose to use  
or not it'd be useful. I'd personally have no problem paying for a  
decent service.

> As to combating this locally:
>
> Should matching be performed on suspect phrases?

Maybe. The problem is, spambots often mess about with spellings and  
such. Could be a never ending task. That's what the akismet solution  
does for you.

Some kind of flood control is the other method I've seen used so bots  
can't keep hammering the comment system.


> Should we implement ip and account banning to comments and
> announcements/blog?

yep. phpwsbb already does that. It'd of course be better if it was  
centrally done so that if someone is banned in one module, they're  
banned elsewhere too. Can it be done such that any module  
automatically picks up the ban?


Shaun
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