[wp-hackers] TypePad AntiSpam

[kingler]

Not sure if anyone caught this in the new TypePad AntiSpam service
announcement.
http://antispam.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/welcome.html

Interestingly enough, they are releasing the core code as GPL v2 for the
AntiSpam service!
Latest subversion: http://code.sixapart.com/svn/antispam/

I am not a Perl guru to appreciate the code, but it sounds like a bold move
by TypePad.
Especially considering that they are promising the service to be free for
any, including probloggers and enterprises.

-Liang

kingler from 72pines

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:

> Yeah, the Defensio source is a huge mess, although this one isn't too much
> better. I really wish more people would use PHP classes for their plugins.
> It's sooo much nicer.
>
> But anyway, I'm stickin' with Defensio. I can't argue with it's
> spam-catching accuracy (although it had a little trouble with marking
> legitimate pingbacks as spam in the beginning):
>
> (since March 23rd, 2008)
>
> 119799 spam
> 383 legitimate comments
> 56 false negatives (undetected spam)
> 34 false positives (legitimate comments identified as spam)
>
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Ozh <ozh at planetozh.com> wrote:
>
> > I just gave it a quick look, from a coder's perspective. Looks rather
> > clean, compared to Defensio which code is awfully messy and doesnt
> > show any WordPress knowing.
> >
> > I'm not sure if it's a good idea to use 2 similar plugins (ie, plugins
> > supposed to try and learn from mistakes). I mean, if one plugin catch
> > a spam that's in fact a ham, or the other way round, the other plugin
> > won't know and won't learn ?
> > Definitely sticking to Akismet for now :)
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Jorge Peña <jorgepblank at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > What do you guys think about it? I myself have been using reCAPTCHA
> (I'm
> > the
> > > developer for the official plugin for wordpress:
> > > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recaptcha/ ) but of course I'm
> > open
> > > to new solutions. I gave up on Akismet after having to continuously
> check
> > > the queue to make sure that it didn't eat something up that it wasn't
> > > supposed to, defeating the point of it being automatic.
> > >
> > > http://antispam.typepad.com/info/get-started.html
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