[wp-forums] Re: Akismet thoughts

[Les Bessant]

I'd have called item 2 either a simple courtesy to posters, or an absolute
prerequisite to using an aggressive spam filter, depending on how grumpy I
was at the time.


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[mailto:wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Handy
Sent: 24 February 2007 17:35
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Subject: [wp-forums] Re: Akismet thoughts

Item 2 (below) would be really cool.

How is it handled on the .com forums when stuff gets spam-trapped?

On 2/20/07, Handy <handy.solo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Honest, I'm not a major whiner in real life.  :-)
>
> Some thoughts on akismet anti-spam measures in the wordpress.org support
> forums.
>
> 1) Would it be worthwhile to explore the idea of a notification list or
> feed on the askimet list?  Instead of checking every few hours (yeah, I'm
a
> bit psycho) I and the others could then just monitor a feed or email
inbox.
>
> 2) When akismet marks something as spam, could we give the poster a wee
> bit of feedback?  Enough to let 'em know that trying 7 more times won't
make
> a difference?  Here's the most recent thoughts from a user:
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/106960?replies=7#post-520395
> (there have been others, but this one is at least reasoned and thought
> out).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Handy
>
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