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http://akismet.com/

Akismet is a free for personal use comment spam web service. It's highly effective as the database is updated by the users to provide protection against the latest spam sweeps. You never have to update your own database to have the best filtering.

It's similar to Spam Assassin where you can submit spam to be added to the filter or ham false positives.

It's available in plug-in form for a number of web applications or available as an API for a wide number of programming languages (like PHP and Python). Implimentation is easy for both routes.

I've been using Akismet for a week now. It's blocked 20 comment spam messages from making their way onto my site. It's done this without any false-positives or interfering with the visitor. Forget the unaccessible CAPTCHA nonsense that users hate. Use Akismet. I'm very happy with my choice and recommend it to anyone that has a comment system on their site.

Skipdawg

This is looking really cool. I see there is a punBB mod for it so a mod for SMF should not be to hard for a coder. I'm going to go look and see if anyone has asked for such a mod if not ask for one.

I don't care at all for that CAPTCHA and folks with vision problems really can have trouble with it if not setup with a sound attachment. But this looks good.

Thanks for sharing

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Just wanted to mention that Akismet has been very successful on my site. Yesterday alone it blocked 24 and none got through. It let's about 1 in 30 or so through with no false-positives.

H stops comment spam with no effort.