Improved spam filtering for Typo

I just committed the last big chunk of code for Typo 4.0.0: improved spam filtering. We now know about Akismet, and will use them for spam filtering if you enter an Akismet key on Typo’s setttings page. Incoming comments (and trackbacks) that fail the spam check aren’t published unless the blog owner approves them via the handy new ‘feedback’ page.

I really want to get Typo 4.0.0 out before Monday, so please pound on this and let me know how it goes.

Posted by Scott Laird Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:03:12 GMT

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  1. Scott Laird 17 minutes later:

    This is a test.

  2. Paul Ingles about 19 hours later:

    Hi Scott,

    Well I’m up on the trunk release, and all looks well - love the new admin interface by the way, the last one didn’t really seem to feel all that well put together.

    I’ve registered with Wordpress.com which should enable me to use their API key with Aksimet, but, was thinking what would be nice is on the settings screen to check whether that’s a valid key (run like a test check or something and see whether it goes through).

    Glad to see the Feedback page also in the new release - I actually added batch trackback deletion to the existing Trackbacks list page a little while ago, was writing it up for a blog post on writing Rails code test-first. Ran into a few problems with Rails’ assert_tag stuff though, ah well, maybe I’ll still post it :)

    Great work!