[spam-stopper] New plugin version

[Sebastian Herp]

Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> Don't blog or talk about this yet, but there's a new version of the 
> plugin available for download. Big changes?
>
> * Paging on the caught spam page
> * A 'recheck queue' button on the moderation page
>
> I'm curious to know what you guys think of these, if there are any 
> other big needs you see in the WP plugin, and if you run into any bugs.
>
Sorry for replying this late ;-)

I am using Akismet together with Spam Karma (via sk-plugin). While I 
think the combination of both is near perfect for fighting spam, but 
there are still many (most) people out there using only Akismet. Don't 
get me wrong ... Akismet alone works pretty well, but sometimes it flags 
comments as spam which are cleary ham and the way around.

It can become a real problem if the amount of spam on your blog is very 
very high ... I never look at the list of caught spam, because I would 
have to oversee hundreds of comments each time. Thus real comments 
incorrectly flagged as spam might never see the light :-(

An relatively easy way to further enhance Akismet (if in the use without 
Spam Karma) would be to never ever flag (or even check) a comment as 
spam if it was written by a registered user! Another good thing would to 
check the new comment against old comments. How often does the "new" 
user/mail/url combination exist in either collected spam (moderation 
queue) or ham (all comments) and how recent are these appearances? This 
could be uses to "weight" the comment. I do not want to see a single 
comment of a regular commenter flagged as spam, no matter what he/she 
writes or links to!

That's all for now ;-)