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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
:Revision: 		1
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa


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Services_Trackback and Akismet.com spam checks
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:Description:
    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...

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...

.. __: http://pear.php.net
.. __: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_Trackback
.. __: http://akismet.com
.. __: http://wordpress.com

Services_Trackback now reached beta stadium. I think the class is more than
feature complete now (maybe some more spam checking techniques will follow)
and the API turned out to be quite ok (considering that I want to keep it PHP
4 compatible).


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Comments
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- Sudar at Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:11:54 +0200

  That's a good news. Thank you Tobias.

  Came here from Akismet's blog.