[wp-edu] Spam protection and Themes

[Luke Waltzer]

Blogs at Baruch also has the free option. Unlike our more efficient and
talented Canadian cousins, we hard coded it into the footer of each theme
offered on our WPMU install.
  
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> From: D'Arcy Norman <dlnorman at ucalgary.ca>
> Reply-To: <wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>
> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:26:26 -0700
> To: <wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>
> Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Spam protection and Themes
> 
> 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
>>> 
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