And there needs to be an appeals court for false positives, but really, this is fantastic and it's long overdue. <br>
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Sarah<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 20/09/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Mullenweg</b> <<a href="mailto:m@mullenweg.com">m@mullenweg.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Assuming this whole things works, and we don't know if it will yet, I'm<br>still figuring out how to make it self-sustaining in the long term.<br><br>The obvious answer is to have it be a paid-only service, so all costs<br>
are covered from the beginning, but I really feel like the web needs<br>serious help with comment spam, and charging for basic protection isn't<br>going to make the web a better place.<br><br>I would be more comfortable with something where it was free for regular
<br>people, and only businesses or enterprises paid (enough to support<br>everybody).<br><br>There may be "keys" or accounts at some point to prevent abuse.<br><br>However the plugin and API are designed to be pretty easy to recreate,
<br>so if someone wanted to run their own spam service they could easily.<br><br>--<br>Matt Mullenweg<br> <a href="http://photomatt.net">http://photomatt.net</a> | <a href="http://wordpress.org">http://wordpress.org</a><br>
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