Spam Checking

[aixelsyd]

Good question. Right now I am terrible at adding anything new to pligg. Just can't figure out how to add like say a new function. That's my limitation of course and I need to become better with php. Right now I dabble at best.

I've found this link http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BlogSpamAssassin but haven't dove that deep into it.

[hm2k]

I think it would be easy enough to utilise something such as this...

http://apthorpe.cynistar.net/code/babycart/

This is some kind of Blog-SpamAssasin addon for wordpress, that could probably be easily ported for Pligg.

However can we 100% rely on SpamAssassin (as some people might not run a SA server) or would we need our own form of defense instead/as well.

This project looks interesting... http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/ - The download for this project has a "bad-behavior-generic.php" "plug-in" that could be utilised as an optional add-on.

I can't stress enough though that I think we should either come up with a reasonable replacement solution to the existing attempt, or remove it all together and simply offer something like "Bad Behavior" that can be added on by the user.

It would probably make sense to offer some kind of database driven list of regex based matches, what do we think?

[hm2k]

Wordpress and others appear to use http://akismet.com/ but it does require an API key to use it.

However, phpBB uses a different method, one of the more popular antispam scripts is http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=2148409

However, so far, has anyone actually had many issues with spam? I imagine that at the moment spam isn't an issue. In order to come up with a reasonable solution, we need to analyse the spam, otherwise we're fighting a non-existent problem.

I personally think we should look at removing the existing anti-spam solution, and perhaps coming up with a new module version in the near future once we know what thing we need to filter.

[hm2k]

Now the modules exist, don't you think the current anti-spam script should be removed, cleaned up and added as a module where it could exist for further development without interfering with anything else... ?