[Chicago] Tech Coffee Suggestion: SpamBayes + Roundup = spam-free tracker???

[Pete]

On Tuesday May 8 2007 7:58 pm, skip at pobox.com wrote:
> Are there any Roundup gurus in the corral?  The python.org folks would like
> to switch the core issue tracker from SourceForge to Roundup.  There's just
> one itty bitty problem: wiki/blog spam.  For example:
>
>     http://bugs.python.org/issue1030
>
> I know how to do the SpamBayes side of things but know absolutely nothing
> about Roundup (and was told it's a bit of a challenge).  Would someone like
> to collaborate on this at Tech Coffee the next few weeks?

You might take a look at akismet (I haven't tried it): 
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/akismet/0.1.4

"Akismet is a web service for recognising spam comments."

--Pete
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