[spam-stopper] New plugin version

Matt Mullenweg m at mullenweg.com
Thu Oct 19 08:15:25 UTC 2006


Sebastian Herp wrote:
> An relatively easy way to further enhance Akismet (if in the use without 
> Spam Karma) would be to never ever flag (or even check) a comment as 
> spam if it was written by a registered user!

We used to do this a few months ago on the server-side. Spammers figured 
it out, and it was badly exploited, and I'll leave it at that. Do you 
really want your blog's registration system to become a bot target?

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Matt Mullenweg
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