Akismet -- Online Comment/Trackback Spam Blacklist

I was having a discussion recently with some colleagues over on CS.org about setting up some sort of centralized comment/trackback spam blacklist as it’s really becoming quite a pain the ass lately for lots of folks (plus it’s a big push for the next version of CS to clamp down a bit more on spam). 

Knowing that all the great ideas I come up with have more than likely already been done, I set out to see if indeed someone had given it a shot; lo and behold someone has.  It looks like it was originally built for WordPress, but they have an open API so anyone with an API key can tap into it.  Something like this is long overdue in the blogging realm, and the CS developers have jumped all over it…so hopefully blog spam will be ancient history for us CS folks in the 2.0 release (or for anyone who chooses to use the akismet API).

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Only published comments... Dec 28 2005, 07:48 PM by Jayson Knight

Filed under: Tools and Resources, Community Server, Metablog

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	Jayson Knight said: Ah crap...I accidentally deleted the comments on this post while deleting spams. Sorry Keyvan! December 30, 2005 3:04 AM
	Keyvan Nayyeri said: ;) We will block them soon :D December 30, 2005 6:09 AM
	Keyvan Nayyeri said: In last days, I was thinking about a solution for Trackback spams. If you are familiar with blog, know... February 15, 2006 7:04 AM

About Jayson Knight

Jayson Knight was clueless to the computer programming world until he took a C++ class in college. The rest is proverbial history. He has been building applications targeting the .Net framework for 7 years, focusing mainly on internet technologies and database driven web application development.

Most recently he left the world of Corporate IT to finish up his degree in Chemistry, with an eye on Medical School and an Anesthesiology residency program. Read this post for more information.

He is also a Community Server MVP: Community Server is the software that runs this site, plus many others on the web. For more information, check out http://csmvps.com.

When he finds time to pry himself away from his computer and university studies, he can be found on the mountain bike trails when it's warm, and on the ski slopes when it's cold.