[wp-edu] Latex support in WordPress?

[Jim Groom]

D'Arcy,

Make that $550, seems they have lowered the price since last December, but
still way out of what we can pay.

Jim

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Jim Groom <jimgroom at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> So… What are the viable alternatives? Ideally something that blocks both
>> comment-spam and splog-blog signups?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> **-          **D****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *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?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I think educational institutions should #occupyakismet :)****
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Jim Groom <jimgroom at gmail.com> wrote:***
>> *
>>
>> 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.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Also, were there any deals made with CUNY we should know about?
>>
>> Jim Groom
>>
>> ****
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com> wrote:
>> ****
>>
>> On 11/28/11 10:10 AM, VanDrimmelen, Jeff wrote: ****
>>
>> 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. ****
>>
>> 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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