Currently the anti spam module doesnt seem to filter tracebacks send to articles. While I havent had any spam on my tracebacks, I see these are published automatically and can (and will) potentially be misused by "online casino" posters. should these ostings go through the anti spam module as well?

btw: I think you should rename this module to anti spam module, just to let people know we are the good guys :)

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#4 trackback.module.patch658 bytesjeremy

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jeremy commented
Title: tracebacks » provide _spam hook so third-party modules can utilize spam filter
Priority: Minor » Normal

The proper thing to do is to provide hooks so that third party modules (such as trackback) can utilize the spam module. Trying to support all third party modules is an impossibility.

I plan to implement this eventually, but I'm currently focused on finishing a mail archive module, so it may take some time before I get back to focusing on the spam module.

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+1 on this -- the trackback spam has begun on my site.

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teradome commented

sorry, that would be me who posted #2.

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new trackback.module.patch658 bytes

A "spam_check" function has been added to allow third-party modules to utilize the spam module.

Attached is a simple example that should make the trackback module spam.module aware.

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jeremy commented

Please see this trackback issue for a working patch implementing the _spam hook. Please test, and if it works say so on the linked issue so this can be merged into the trackback module.

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