[wp-edu] Latex support in WordPress?

[Jim Groom]

D'Arcy,

it's not that we have a problem with paying for Akismet, quite the
opposite. We just think the $900 price point is insane.  I can imagine
small businesses feel the same way.  it is more than our monthly external
hosting fees.

That said, we don;t use Akismet and Cookies for Comments is working well
for us, and you can use TypePad's Akismet code for free, but Akismet seems
to work better than the latter. All that said Cookies for Comments works
for now, but it is an pache hack, and once a spammer picks up on the trick
it is open season again.

Jim

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:07 AM, D'Arcy Norman <dlnorman at ucalgary.ca> wrote:

> Akismet is a service that they have every right to charge for. It takes
> servers and people to run it. If we don’t like it, we should find an
> alternative rather than wishing they’d donate free access to their service
> just because we’re in education.****
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> So… What are the viable alternatives? Ideally something that blocks both
> comment-spam and splog-blog signups?****
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> *From:* wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:
> wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com] *On Behalf Of *Jim Groom
> *Sent:* Monday, November 28, 2011 8:35 AM
> *To:* wp-edu at lists.automattic.com
> *Subject:* Re: [wp-edu] Latex support in WordPress?****
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> I think educational institutions should #occupyakismet :)****
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> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Jim Groom <jimgroom at gmail.com> wrote:****
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> For the record, that's not so anymore. Once upon a time, instead of paying
> discounted edu rates, an option for edus using Akismet was  free cost in
> exchange for those links. Now edus just have the same rates as companies.*
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> Which is highway robbery given how most of these wordpress installs are
> run at universities. The conflation of businesses and universities by the
> wordpress community is one of its greatest blind spots in my opinion.
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> Also, were there any deals made with CUNY we should know about?
>
> Jim Groom
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> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com> wrote:*
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> On 11/28/11 10:10 AM, VanDrimmelen, Jeff wrote: ****
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> We no longer use Akismet on a site-wide basis for our spam though because
> they require you put Wordpress.com and Akismet in the footer of each site
> and we didn't want to have that limitation. ****
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> For the record, that's not so anymore. Once upon a time, instead of paying
> discounted edu rates, an option for edus using Akismet was  free cost in
> exchange for those links. Now edus just have the same rates as companies.*
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