[spam-stopper] Heavy attack

[Sebastian Herp]

Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> ttech5593 wrote:
>> So true... Spammers keep finding ways around the spam blocking tools and
>> anti-spam measures. Take Spam Karma 2.2 for example, it works but not 
>> all
>> the time any more. If you use that with Akismet and maybe Bad Behavior
>> you'll be ahead of the spammers for a while. Till they figure it out and
>> then spam problems all over again. It's seem though it is a never ending
>> cycle.
>
> That's where you're wrong. Unlike something static you download and 
> install on your blog, Akismet can (and does) adapt right along with 
> the spammers. Any solution that can't change as fast as they do has 
> all the cards stacked against it in the long run.
>
Not quite true ... Akismet lacks some checks that would prevent even 
more spam to get trough, especially checks that identify REAL 
commenters. It happened twice on my own blog that Akismet thought that I 
was a spamer. Luckily Spam Karma gave my comment enough points (because 
I was logged in!!!) ... checking if the commented post is really old or 
was recently commented would help, too. All this is available in 
"static" tools like Spam Karma and I wouldn't want to miss it (and the 
javascript-check/captcha fallback).

And about the long run: we will not be able to prevent spam from 
happening ... ultimately manual spam, while slow, will always appear on 
blogs if no human is checking the comments :-(