[EchoWorks] Upcoming changes in the spam checking pipeline
Alex Peshkov
Echo StreamServer uses external spam checking services for inspecting all newly posted items (submitted using verb 'post' and having state 'Untouched'). When these services respond with delays, it slows down the entire pipeline.
We're going to improve the spam checking mechanism - if the external service returns error or times out (1 second), Echo StreamServer will add marker spam.<SERVICE>.error (<SERVICE> being the name of the spam check service, e.g. "akismet"), the item will not be checked and its status will not be changed.
If you don't want such items to appear in the search query results we recommend adding '-marker: spam.akismet.error' to the search query definition. If you would like to moderate such item manually, add 'marker: spam.akismet.error' to your moderation queries. Otherwise leave your queries untouched.
We are going to release these modifications on Mar 02, 2012.
Please let us know if you have concerns or foresee any issues. We will be glad to help you.