[spam-stopper] New plugin version

[Roland Haeder]

On Thursday, 19. October 2006 10:15, Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> Sebastian Herp wrote:
> > 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!
>
> We used to do this a few months ago on the server-side. Spammers figured
> it out, and it was badly exploited, and I'll leave it at that. Do you
> really want your blog's registration system to become a bot target?
Yupp, that will be the next logical step the spammers are doing. :-( :-( :-(

Then we have the same problem as with the comments: Captchas, time-outing 
confirmation of a unique link in the email and so on. Sploggers will benefit 
from this anyway.

Roland