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Christopher Lenz

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Oct 27, 2006, 2:02:11 PM10/27/06

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Hey everyone,

as anyone trying to report a ticket or edit a wiki page recently has
probably noticed, Akismet is currently acting overly restrictive and
flagging all kinds of legitimate submissions as spam. I hope this is
a temporary problem with Akismet, as the service is otherwise
extremely helpful in keeping the bad guys out.

Anyway, the problem has prompted me to completely overhaul the
SpamFilter plugin, introducing a karma/score system where the
likelihood of a submission being spam is impacted by a larger number
of factors. Edgewall.org is currently running that new SpamFilter,
and I'm monitoring what's happening in that direction, and reporting
false positives back to Akismet. I'm hoping the situation will
improve soon.

Anyway, if your submissions are getting rejected, try putting some
info on the settings screen. That should currently go a long way
towards your submissions being accepted. Until the spammers find out,
that is.