http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2008/04/18/open-source-akismet-or-defensio en-us 40 <p>I have a bad habit of getting caught up in side projects - I love to build stuff, and open see opportunities to engage in this hobby. A site I've run for a while is the <a href="http://www.leenooks.com">Linux Incompatibility List</a>, which also led me to create my own Rails based wiki for it, <a href="http://dedawiki.dedasys.com">DedaWiki</a>, which is of course open source (and could use some more attention).</p> <p>However, things are getting badly on the spam front, and it's time to find a better solution than hacking at my own anti-spam code. Two systems that look good are <a href="http://akismet.com/">Akismet</a>, which I use successfully for this journal, and <a href="http://defensio.com/">Defensio</a>. However, being the impractical guy that I am, I am also curious if there are what we might call 'open source' efforts in this area. I'm not sure what that would look like, since there's probably strength in numbers, and a hosted solution is certainly easier. Also, it seems the incentives in an arms race like anti-spam are in favor of the quick turnaround that a small, smart, dedicated team can provide. Also... a bit of security through obscurity in an arms race type situation probably doesn't hurt, since there's often going to be a way around anything that's not locked down (and part of the value of a journal like this is in the comments), and letting people see exactly what numbers and ratios and metrics are being used is going to help the bad guys.</p> <p>Anyone able to point me to something that proves me wrong?</p> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:19:00 -0700 urn:uuid:8480ee90-b47c-4323-8d21-519819e5179d David N. Welton http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2008/04/18/open-source-akismet-or-defensio rails spam http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/trackback/1862 <p>Mollom has nice take on this anti-spam content thing...</p> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:10:09 -0700 urn:uuid:a5de9342-8a67-4100-a1a1-48c8b11e07fe http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2008/04/18/open-source-akismet-or-defensio#comment-1234 <p>CRM114?</p> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:44:25 -0700 urn:uuid:ee7f19ad-9f2a-4a7d-82d2-fff63da55d1c http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2008/04/18/open-source-akismet-or-defensio#comment-1233