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SixApart Launches OS'ed Blog AntiSpam Competitor to Akismet
antispam.typepad.com — TypePad AntiSpam offers a TypePad-native feature for free to other blogging platforms, including plug-ins for Movable Type 3/4+, WordPress 2.5 and is 100% Akismet-compatible. Unlike Akismet, TypePad AntiSpam is "free for everyone, regardless of how many comments you receive." TypePad AntiSpam is open source for community improvement/development.
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- p1rj1s, on 05/29/2008, -0/+1Cool. Reading through reviews, it's working well.
- johnwesley, on 05/29/2008, -0/+1Akismet has been having some issues lately: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/05/27/my-l ...
If this is superior I'd consider switching. - glenda, on 05/30/2008, -2/+0Akismet is also free and built into WordPress. How is the logic different and/or necessarily better for AntiSpam when applied to WordPress 2.5, when Akismet is native to WordPress' core?
"TypePad AntiSpam is open source for community improvement/development."
So my question is: If AntiSpam is open source, then how does AntiSpam address the fact that anyone can hack, re-engineer, and exploit it to do something that it was never meant to do (like allow the more malicious developers to PUT spam onto your blogs anyway since it's open source code, when it's supposed to stop that from happening)?
Lastly, and this is just my 2-cents: I'd be really impressed if you could get rid of spam on Blogger... that seems like a a bigger and more impressive battle worth fighting, considering there is so much of it on Blogger and Blogspot.- aislington, on 06/08/2008, -0/+1TypePad AntiSpam is clearly aimed at the problogger and commercial market, who will be delighted that they can get the same (or better) protection without having to pay Automattic hundreds of dollars.
And of course it's pure coincidence that Akismet's lead developer happens to be your boyfriend
- aislington, on 06/08/2008, -0/+1TypePad AntiSpam is clearly aimed at the problogger and commercial market, who will be delighted that they can get the same (or better) protection without having to pay Automattic hundreds of dollars.
- CarzorStelatis, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2I'll try this on the Wordpress sites I run - Akismet has been temperamental recently (mainly in missing obvious spam and moderating it instead of nuking it). Since this new antispam (at least in its beta form) doesn't give deliberately worse service to non-corporate blogs, it might be just what I'm after.
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