D'Arcy,<br><br>Make that $550, seems they have lowered the price since last December, but still way out of what we can pay.<br><br>Jim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Jim Groom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jimgroom@gmail.com">jimgroom@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">D'Arcy,<br><br>it's not that we have a problem with paying for Akismet, quite the opposite. We just think the $900 price point is insane. I can imagine small businesses feel the same way. it is more than our monthly external hosting fees.<br>
<br>That said, we don;t use Akismet and Cookies for Comments is working well for us, and you can use TypePad's Akismet code for free, but Akismet seems to work better than the latter. All that said Cookies for Comments works for now, but it is an pache hack, and once a spammer picks up on the trick it is open season again.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>Jim</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:07 AM, D'Arcy Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dlnorman@ucalgary.ca" target="_blank">dlnorman@ucalgary.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-CA"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Akismet is a service that they have every right to charge for. It takes servers and people to run it. If we don’t like it, we should find an alternative rather than wishing they’d donate free access to their service just because we’re in education.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So… What are the viable alternatives? Ideally something that blocks both comment-spam and splog-blog signups?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">D<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt">
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank">wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank">wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Groom<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 28, 2011 8:35 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [wp-edu] Latex support in WordPress?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I think educational institutions should #occupyakismet :)<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Jim Groom <<a href="mailto:jimgroom@gmail.com" target="_blank">jimgroom@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in">
<p class="MsoNormal">For the record, that's not so anymore. Once upon a time, instead of paying discounted edu rates, an option for edus using Akismet was free cost in exchange for those links. Now edus just have the same rates as companies.<u></u><u></u></p>
</blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Which is highway robbery given how most of these wordpress installs are run at universities. The conflation of businesses and universities by the wordpress community is one of its greatest blind spots in my opinion. <br>
<br>Also, were there any deals made with CUNY we should know about?<span style="color:#888888"><br><br><span>Jim Groom</span><br><br></span><u></u><u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Jane Wells <<a href="mailto:jane@automattic.com" target="_blank">jane@automattic.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
</div></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 11/28/11 10:10 AM, VanDrimmelen, Jeff wrote: <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We no longer use Akismet on a site-wide basis for our spam though because they require you put <a href="http://Wordpress.com" target="_blank">Wordpress.com</a> and Akismet in the footer of each site and we didn't want to have that limitation. <u></u><u></u></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">For the record, that's not so anymore. Once upon a time, instead of paying discounted edu rates, an option for edus using Akismet was free cost in exchange for those links. Now edus just have the same rates as companies.<u></u><u></u></p>
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