I just installed an anti-spam filter for the comments on my site. It was written by James Seng, and uses a Bayesian network to detect probable spam -- just like many popular email filters. We'll see how it works. I don't get a lot of spam here, so it may take some time to train it. Meanwhile, I won't have it actually filter anything, so no comments will be lost.
No, I cannot resist adding artificial intelligence to everything, whenever possible.
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It is quiet... sort of. As I mentioned in my previous post, I am on vacation this week so I can host a visit from my grandson. Caring for him is not onerous, so I am enjoying his visit. He... Read More
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Good geek.
hln
We use Movable Type at work - I am using it as a news archive and to publish faculty-authored blogs - so I've got to get our IT guys to install the Seng filter. Unfortunately, they don't really understand Movable Type and outsourced its initial installation. :-(
It wasn't that hard to install, but it is still giving a lot of false-positives because it isn't fully trained yet. The instructions that come with it are pretty simple, though.