[pLog-svn] spam

[Paul Westbrook]

Hello,
    The plugin that I believe that you are thinking about is the Bad  
Behavior plugin.  This plugin rejects the http connection,  
essentially before any LifeType code sees the request.

--Paul


On Dec 16, 2006, at 1:59 PM, Oscar Renalias wrote:

> Isn't the akismet plugin working at a much lower level and in a  
> more effective way than our current anti-spam systems? Could it be  
> merged into the core and leverage its lower requirements?
>
> On 16 Dec 2006, at 20:34, Jon Daley wrote:
>
>> 	My guess is that the main problem of people running large blog  
>> hosting environments is the spammers.  They can hit the server so  
>> fast, and use up the whole CPU and GBs of RAM very quickly.
>> 	And once a blog has been abandoned, spammers can jump all over it.
>>
>> This also happens to a wordpress installation I have, so we don't  
>> have to feel really bad about it, but it would be nice to have a  
>> way to block spam with very little resources.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jon Daley
>> http://jon.limedaley.com/
>>
>> The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
>> capacity - the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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