It would make sense to have some kind of test string to see if mollom is working without getting a penalty in IP/user reputation. Much like the test string for eicar anti virus software testing, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR and http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

For example if the text "eicar" (or anything else) is in the body (and optional subject) or an more obscure non existing word, trigger mollom to flag it as spam so implementers can test to see of mollom is working. We have to think that this will not be used by spammers in any way or worse has false positives.

Does this make sense?

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See http://mollom.com/faq/how-do-i-test-mollom and http://drupal.org/node/350424

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bertboerland commented

thanks for those pointers (although i think it is a wrong way to implement these with standard words like ham and with the developer moudle on)

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On the other hand, terms like 'ham', 'spam' and 'unsure' are a lot easier for people to understand right away. I had no idea about EICAR and what it means (thanks for the link!), but I don't think it would be appropriate in this case. We aren't testing for viruses.

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bertboerland commented
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reopeing. what I would like is a test string so one can see that mollom is working. eicar is the standard text string that all anti virus software uses, so one can see that the software is actually getting viri (or spam)

this is a better solution that putting a production site in dev mode for mollom. "eicar" by itself is not a good test string to trigge rmollom; a site about anti viri testing will have not many user input :-) but something like "eicarteststring" might work.

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egl commented

Probably the GTUBE-string would be more specific for this purpose.

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bertboerland commented

true, see http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/