[pLog-svn] spam

Oscar Renalias oscar at renalias.net
Sun Dec 17 00:08:00 GMT 2006


Yes, that's the one I was thinking about.

Would it be feasible to integrate it with the core? Are we really  
sure that it loads less code than "standard" plugins?

On 17 Dec 2006, at 00:07, Paul Westbrook wrote:

> 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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