Akismet .Net 2.0 API

Comment spam is quickly becoming A BIG problem. 92% of all comments are spam!!! Not only is every blog online getting spammed, but so are simple contact forms.

The guys over at Akismet have created a solution for this, an anti-spam-webservice.

I've wrapped this up into an easy to use .Net 2.0 Library.

Check it out here...http://www.joel.net/code/akismet.aspx


let me know what you think...








Joel Thoms
DiscountASP.NET
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We need tools like this, great job bro.


Let's also team up and handle spam rather than simply throwing an exception.


When it's a known spam source let's put them in infinite space or redirect them to the FBI's Most Wanted list.


(Time to fight back.)

 

Hi Joel,

Thanks for this. Very handy. Will be using it shortly.

Cheers

 

Indeed, let's all work together against these spammers.


Big patriotic Salute to DASP

 

Yes it can. You just have to plug it into where you want it.


Joel Thoms
DiscountASP.NET
http://www.DiscountASP.NET

 

So what are they doing, keyword filtering? That was effective for my own comment and contact forms. Only had to add about a dozen keywords to stop 99% of the spam. I am wary of relying on third party screening, but obvioulsy access to a large keyword database would be a useful tool.

Forum spamming is much easier to stop than blog comment or contact form spamming. I recently added a restriction to a couple of forums to disallow URLs in posts from users with less than five posts (actually it allows them, but sends them to a moderation queue). It has completely eliminated spam posts.

That isn't a config option for this forum, but it sounds like we may want to use the Akismet solution. I wonder how it would react to the posts containing code. For a typical blog or contact form you would probably want to block all code...

mjp
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