[spam-stopper] New plugin version

Mark Jaquith mark.wordpress at txfx.net
Thu Oct 19 10:20:54 UTC 2006


On Oct 19, 2006, at 6:07 AM, Sebastian Herp wrote:

> If done by the plugin or the wordpress installation itself (e.g.  
> "if registered_user() then don't check against Akismet"), how could  
> that be abused?

Bots can sign up for accounts on your WordPress install if you're  
just doing a simple registration check.

> It's just that I have seen it twice that Akismet flagged one of my  
> own comments as spam ... I am the author of my blog, so that should  
> never happen, should it?

Good call... the plugin should skip the Akismet check if you have the  
ability to post entries.

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Mark Jaquith
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