[spam-stopper] A small akismet extension for separating ham from spam

[John Joseph Bachir]

This plugin is brilliant. Any chance this could get integrated into the 
official Akismet WordPress plugin?


On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, rich boakes wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> For me, Akismet was great at first because it identified the spam, and 
> (although rare) when there were false positives, there was only 10:1 spam 
> ratio so the real messages were really obvious.
>
> The recent upsurge in comments (and thus the upsurge in Akismet's quarry) has 
> had a detrimental knock-on effect on the ease of separating ham from spam.
>
> The task of spotting a piece of false-positive ham in the middle of hundreds 
> of spams is no different to what we were doing before, manually sifting 
> through every message - the only change is that instead of looking for "ham 
> to accept" we now have to look for "ham to de-spam".
>
> To improve this I added a "Worst Offenders" section to the 1.15 version of 
> Akismet.  It lists the IP addresses and domains that appear most frequently, 
> and allows the user to delete these en-masse, reducing the amount of spam/ham 
> filtering to a far more manageable amount.
>
> It's manageable on my site anyway, your mileage may differ.
>
> The updated plugin is here:
> http://boakes.org/download/akismet-1.15-wo.zip
>
> It hopefully proves that such a system is fairly useful, and might give 
> people a few ideas for better solutions.
>
> Thinking forward I was considering two avenues of development that might be 
> useful:
>
> (1) combine the worst-offenders IP addresses with the existing WP capability 
> to write the .htaccess file, thus having a dynamic deny list that targets 
> active spam-bots.
>
> (2) to allow more experimentation, the Akismet size of things could be made a 
> bit more pluggable with filters triggered when the spam page is submitted and 
> displayed.  This could enable akismet plugin-lets to provide more intelligent 
> management functions (like this one) without having to update the core 
> plugin).
>
> Anyway; food for thought and a plugin to play with.  Hope it's useful :)
>
> Rich
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