Comments on: Spam Words

By: James Lewitzke

James Lewitzke — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:45:37 +0000

Hey John I commented on this post a week or two ago, and it wasn’t published immediately (I had a feeling it wouldn’t), so I was just wondering if you check akismet for those sort of comments or not?

Maybe it was just deleted if you’ve been receiving tons of spam, and didn’t see it amongst the 100s of other spams blogs often get.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:08:43 +0000

I agree with VirtuosiMedia – I’ve seen several different scripts use the Akismet anti-spam API in the past – it’s definitely worth a try. It would be far more advanced than a custom spam filter that spammers would find a way around no doubt.

Dan

By: Medieval

Medieval — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:13:42 +0000

By: Tripy

Tripy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:19:58 +0000

Or, rather than simply filter words, you could implement a “naive bayesian filter”.
Wikipedia has an explaination there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_Bayes_classifier

A quick google find brought me to this: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/BayesClassifier.aspx
It’s a bit old, but surely you can adapt the code base to be integrated into yours.

By: VirtuosiMedia

VirtuosiMedia — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:11:02 +0000

Unless you’re dead set on developing your own spam filter, you could just use the akismet API for .net. It’s available here: http://akismet.com/development/