Tobias Schlitt Services_Trackback and Akismet.com spam checks Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100 CC by-nc-sa en text/html A week ago I released my PEAR package Services_Trackback with a new feature added: Support for checking trackbacks against the Akismet.com web service. Akismet is provided by wordpress.com and is the first attempt to centralize efforts against trackback and comment spam. Services_Trackback now supports checking trackbacks against Akismet and so does PEARWeb do, too. Beside that, PEAR developers have the chance to report trackbacks they recieved as spam to Akismet (in addition to deleting them from the database) and with that help to improve the Akismet service. So, let's see how this solution turns out... Tobias Schlitt Services_Trackback and Akismet.com spam checks Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100 CC by-nc-sa en text/plain A week ago I released my PEAR package Services_Trackback with a new feature added: Support for checking trackbacks against the Akismet.com web service. Akismet is provided by wordpress.com and is the first attempt to centralize efforts against trackback and comment spam. Services_Trackback now supports checking trackbacks against Akismet and so does PEARWeb do, too. Beside that, PEAR developers have the chance to report trackbacks they recieved as spam to Akismet (in addition to deleting them from the database) and with that help to improve the Akismet service. So, let's see how this solution turns out... Tobias Schlitt Services_Trackback and Akismet.com spam checks Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100 CC by-nc-sa en application/rss+xml A week ago I released my PEAR package Services_Trackback with a new feature added: Support for checking trackbacks against the Akismet.com web service. Akismet is provided by wordpress.com and is the first attempt to centralize efforts against trackback and comment spam. Services_Trackback now supports checking trackbacks against Akismet and so does PEARWeb do, too. Beside that, PEAR developers have the chance to report trackbacks they recieved as spam to Akismet (in addition to deleting them from the database) and with that help to improve the Akismet service. So, let's see how this solution turns out...