[spam-stopper] Long-term plans

[Sarah King]

And there needs to be an appeals court for false positives, but really, this 
is fantastic and it's long overdue. 

Sarah

On 20/09/05, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
> 
> Assuming this whole things works, and we don't know if it will yet, I'm
> still figuring out how to make it self-sustaining in the long term.
> 
> The obvious answer is to have it be a paid-only service, so all costs
> are covered from the beginning, but I really feel like the web needs
> serious help with comment spam, and charging for basic protection isn't
> going to make the web a better place.
> 
> I would be more comfortable with something where it was free for regular
> people, and only businesses or enterprises paid (enough to support
> everybody).
> 
> There may be "keys" or accounts at some point to prevent abuse.
> 
> However the plugin and API are designed to be pretty easy to recreate,
> so if someone wanted to run their own spam service they could easily.
> 
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