[spam-stopper] Release: PHPBB Akismet Mod

[Eaden McKee]

Hi,
I run a few forums and the spammers really like messing with them and
unfortunately the only Akismet PHPBB mod was abandoned.

On my forums I use a PHPBB mod called Spam Words (
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=354376 ) which
blocks/queues posts based on a keyword blacklist. However the list of
keywords can get very large and hard to maintain.

I've made a mod for this mod to add akismet support. It was quite
simple because the Spam Words mod has all the queuing/moderation code,
so it was just a matter of hooking into the check_spam() function.

If anyone is interested in implementing this onto their forum, the
code and instructions are at
http://www.eadz.co.nz/blog/article/phpbb-akismet.html

In the future I hope to work with the Spam Words developer to get this
added into his mod.

Best Regards
Eaden McKee