Jun 04, 2008
Making Net-Akismet play with TypePad AntiSpam
I've been getting a lot of blog spam lately; it appears that Akismet is slipping. Fortunately, there's a new Akismet-compatible alternative at TypePad AntiSpam which I read about from Justin Mason's post. And it being perl, I decided to try it out here on my blog (never mind it being Blosxom, as long as it uses Frank Hecker's feedback plugin that in turn uses Net::Akismet.
But alas, the current version of Net::Akismet doesn't support user-supplied REST endpoints, so I added it, and promptly filed a report on the CPAN. Hopefully it gets included in the next release very soon.
As for the Blosxom feedback plugin, tweaking it to use the new feature in Net::Akismet was a cinch, so only the real test (of incoming spam filtered by TypePad) remains. Hopefully it does work.
[PS: Looks like the first line in blosxom posts don't like package-like names such as Net::Akismet (during editing my blog title disappeared on the render!) Needs to be looked at later...]
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