[spam-stopper] Meatball experimenting with Akismet

[Matthew Good]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:17 -0400, Sunir Shah wrote:
> I'm experimenting with Akismet at MeatballWiki.
> MeatballWiki is a well known wiki amongst wiki
> developers.
> 
>     http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl
> 
> If it goes well, I will encourage other wikis
> to adopt it.

Akismet has been working well for filtering the Wiki-spam in Trac.
We're using the Python difflib module to extract only the new content
from the pending edit to test for spam.  We do still maintain a list of
some regex patterns to block when certain items seem to be slipping
through Akismet, but this is fairly rare.

http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/browser/sandbox/spam-filter/tracspamfilter/api.py#L56

-- 
Matthew Good <akismet at matt-good.net>