Defensio launched their public beta today. I've been part of the private beta for a couple months now, after openly criticizing Akismet. Defensio is a similar tool, so it does fall prey to the same "wisdom of crowds" weaknesses. Defensio's usability far outstrips SK21 and Akismet2, and the launch of the website improves it a bit. Now there's an RSS feed for my spam. Granted, that's a little strange, but it's better than SK2's digest emails, which untrain google's filters by passing along spam content inside legitimate emails. I like having a choice in anti-spam measures, and especially one that's upfront about its accuracy, and that's cognizant of the need to police your own quarantine. Here's a couple screenshots to give you an idea of what it looks like:
- gouge my eyes out ugly (back ↩)
- requires plugins upon plugins to be usable (back ↩)
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I am a little nervous because this spam software doesn’t like me and eats my comments!
yeah, that’s definitely disconcerting. I mainly stuck it out because it’s the first and only competition for akismet. Nice to see this comment get the thumbs up, finally.
Not sure if you fixed the openID plugin or not, but I am not posting with my other URL, just in case. Thought you might have some insight on the questions raised by Handy at:
http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2007/11/25/defensio-counts-differently-than-i-do
Trent
I commented on his issue there.
The new version of OpenID+ added a checkbox for “Enable OpenID comment auto-approval”, which sounds cool, but automatically sends comments through OpenID, regardless of whether the option to do so is checked. Hopefully things should work fine now.
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