[spam-stopper] Akismet and Lyceum

John Joseph Bachir jjb at ibiblio.org
Wed May 24 01:22:20 UTC 2006


On Tue, 23 May 2006, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>>> For example on deployments with open registration, there may be a
>>> few users trying to game the system amongst the many legitimate
>>> users. Are there other options for differenciating these things,
>>> such as url / domain name?
>
>
> Why  not distributing a different key to each user? I believe this can  be
> trivially implemented, even if databases are shared.

Well, it would be nice if for deployments with thousands of blogs, each 
blog admin didn't have to worry about setting up Akismet. Of course, if 
the system won't be as effective that way, then I certainly think that's a 
small sacrifice for great spam filtering.

John
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