___/ On Fri 19 May 2006 02:36:43 BST, [ John Joseph Bachir ] wrote : \___
On Thu, 11 May 2006, John Joseph Bachir wrote:
Matt Mullenweg said:
Even if you're a non-profit, send something to the contact form
before doing this though, as putting too many blogs on a single key
without pinging us will get you blocked.
Hey, John. Seen your project mentioned in a Linux site a couple of days
ago, so congrats.
What do the Akismet folks see as the most ideal practice for
multi-blog installations in the long term? My impression is that the
Akismet heuristics depend on there being one key per 'person', to
determine if someone is trying to game the system. Would it be
impossible to install one key for a multi-blog system the 'right
way'?
The same problems (potentially) exist in WordPress, namely /em masse/
registrations and installations of blogs. With enough E-mail accounts, it
is also possible to game the system with wp.com accounts. Clearly, this
may be more difficult than mass instantiation of Blogspot accounts
(reasonable example due to their notoriety, attributed to SEO and a
plethora of abuses) where everything is rather lenient.
Is it possible to become just a client of Akismet without contributing
back? I don't see much harm in that. The sample set is very large and
diverse already. Then again, I am not familiar with the system, so I
should probably make no such remarks.
For example on deployments with open registration, there may be a
few users trying to game the system amongst the many legitimate
users. Are there other options for differenciating these things,
such as url / domain name?
Why not distributing a different key to each user? I believe this can be
trivially implemented, even if databases are shared.
It seems like making the heuristics compatible with single-key
multiblog applications would be desirable eventually. For commercial
installs you guys could charge per head. <kool-aid guy voice>Oh
Yeah!</>
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
To make a good statistical discriminant, you probably don't need /that/
much input. To a user who relied on Spamcop or SpamAssassin, for example,
all that is needed is a clean system that is regularly fed by trusted
sources until it matures. As long as it gets regular input, it remains
actual.
Best wishes,
Roy
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