[wp-edu] Spam protection and Themes

[D'Arcy Norman]

I use Akismet on UCalgaryblogs.ca - you do need to give a link back to  
Akismet as part of the license, but it's free. I wrote a simple plugin  
to automatically do that for all sites on a WPMU install.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet-credit-inserter/



- D'Arcy Norman
      Educational Technology Consultant
      Teaching & Learning Centre, The University of Calgary
      dlnorman at ucalgary.ca
      http://tlc.ucalgary.ca
      http://www.darcynorman.net
      (403) 220-2504




On Feb 5, 2009, at 1:23 PM, John Turner wrote:

> Askitmet for non-profs are free. There is also antispam.typepad.com/
>
> John Turner
> Webmaster
> Information Technology
> College of Charleston
> Charleston, SC 29424
> e: turnerjd at cofc.edu
>
>
>
>
>> From: Mark Styles <wp-edu at lambic.co.uk>
>> Reply-To: <wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>
>> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:21:48 -0500
>> To: <wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>
>> Subject: [wp-edu] Spam protection and Themes
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm just wondering what other institutions are using for their blog
>> comment spam protection; Are you paying for Akismet? Paying for
>> something else? Or using one or more of the free plugins?
>>
>>
>> Also, there's a debate raging here over whether all blogs should  
>> use the
>> same basic theme or all the blogs can look different (I'm in the  
>> looking
>> different camp, blogs should have individual personality IMO). Any
>> similar debates happened elsewhere? What was the outcome?
>>
>> -- 
>> Mark
>> http://www.lambic.co.uk
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> wp-edu mailing list
>> wp-edu at lists.automattic.com
>> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu
>
> _______________________________________________
> wp-edu mailing list
> wp-edu at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu
>
>