> I wonder what the current state of the codebase is with regard to > the detection of spam comment, and spam journal discover?
We have no automatic spam detection. Right now it's a purely manual process where users delete comments/posts and have the ability to flag them as spam. These posts show up in a spam management queue that the support volunteers can process. > My interest in anti-spam primarily arose from filtering mail, but > these days I run a simple akismet-like service which runs on open > source software. That offers an RPC API for testing incoming blog > and forum comments as spam. I'm familiar with your service! I believe it was Denny that pointed it out to me some time back? Not sure. > The current site, and service, probably isn't suitable for use by > something the size of dreamwidth, but it provides an interesting > reference and potential starting point for a specific service which > might be useful and interesting. > > Anyway, my name is Steve and I like fighting spam ;) We're really interested in fighting spam, but haven't put much thought or time into the problem. If you're interested in spam in the context of something like Dreamwidth, I'd love to chat. You can find me on AIM as 'xb95', or IRC (irc.dreamwidth.org #dw) also as xb95. This is also the kind of discussion we should have on DW itself -- probably in the dw_dev community. If you don't have an invite code, ping me off-list and I'll get you one! -- Mark Smith / xb95 [email protected] _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
