[spam-stopper] User-agent required when submitting spam?

[james young]

Hey there -

I'm building a new Akismet plugin for Mediawiki, & I've noticed
something about submitting spam - the user-agent is necessary.  Is it
possible to use a placeholder value, or not submit one at all?  The
user agent is easily spoofable, & recording that will require building
out a new table in the database, pruning old entries, etc.

It's a headache for something of questionable value, is what I'm saying.

What do you think?

-James