[wp-hackers] Spam plugin (was:Deprecated functions and files)

[Matthias Vandermaesen]

Hi,

I'm the developer behind WP Mollom. (
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mollom/) It's a plugin that makes use
of the Mollom anti spam service (http://mollom.com) It uses their open,
public API to check comments and trackbacks.

Mollom uses clever text-analysis to block spam. If the service is 'unsure'
about the validity of a message, the commenter will get a auto generated
safe CAPTCHA message. The main idea behind Mollom is to put the moderation
queue out of the equation in order to relieve the site administrator of
loads of control work. To be honest, I was a bit sceptic, but since I've
been developing this plugin and got acquinted with the service, it has been
performing very strong on my own blog. They claim to block 99.7% of all spam
messages and it seems to live up to it's reputation.

So far, I've been developing this plugin since april. It's currently in
public beta (version 0.6.0) Maybe you should give it a try. I'm keen to
receive feedback!

Thanks,

Matthias Vandermaesen
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Ryan McCue <ryanmccue at cubegames.net> wrote:

> Viper007Bond wrote:
>
>> Cookies for comments sounds nice, but then how do you handle
>> ping/trackbacks?
>>
>> Defensio works decently well for me personally.
>>
>> Since March 23rd:
>>
>> * 295755 spam
>> * 848 legitimate comments
>> * 109 false negatives (undetected spam)
>> * 54 false positives (legitimate comments identified as spam)
>>
>>
>> Although I'm always open to suggestions and that cookies for comments
>> seems
>> nice enough, at least until the bots get smart enough to start using
>> session
>> cookies.
>>
>
> I personally use my own plugin which adds a hidden nonce to the comment
> form, to ensure that the backend can't be used directly. Can anyone see any
> cons on this? (Of course, this doesn't affect trackbacks, so I use Simple
> Trackback Validation as well)
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan M.
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