[spam-stopper] A small akismet extension for updating htaccess

[rich boakes]

markus wrote:
> That is, I'm thinking just about measures against spambots. Simple checks
> that could be made against known spam that we may have for a short period of
> time in the queue. I'm currently coding a new version of the module, I would
> love to hear thoughts or suggestions about that. :-)

Funny you should mention that; I've started 
coding it twice already (my plan was rewrite the 
htaccess file so that any any IP address with 
more than n comments in the unmoderated spam 
queue would get a 403, this is in addition to 
the existing 403 ban that I'd set up), but I 
stopped short both times, realising that it's 
probably more useful to suggest some changes to 
the plugin first, so such experiments can be 
attempted by listening for akismet hooks, rather 
than extending the plugin itself.

So here's a straw man describing the kind of 
hooks that would be useful:

  spam page being shown
  spam page being submitted
  comment checked and it's spam
  comment checked and it's not spam
  comment submitted for despam
  comment submitted as spam
  spam comment is deleted

Off the top of my head those would be a good 
start and (assuming the comment is passed as a 
parameter for each), and should make further 
spam-stopping experiments a bit easier.

I might have missed something glaringly obvious 
though, hence this thinking aloud.

Rich
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