May 30th 2008
TypePad Open Source AntiSpam for Blog

Six Apart is launching a new free open source product into beta called TypePad AntiSpam. While the product is new, the technology behind it has been used by Six Apart since May 2007 on millions of hosted TypePad blogs.
What’s TypePad AntiSpam?
- A free, open source system powered by TypePad for blocking comment spam on any site, free no matter how many comments you get.
- A service for all bloggers, built into TypePad blogs already and implemented as a free plugin for users of platforms like Movable Type and WordPress.
- An open source engine which developers can use to create new antispam services, with customizable rules and logic.
- In beta! We’re hearing great results from testers so far, but wanted to open up TypePad AntiSpam to a larger audience so we can make sure the system is getting as smart as possible.
Like Akismet, TypePad AntiSpam takes a multi-headed heuristic approach to detecting and blocking comment spam on blogs. If you are a blogger, you’ll want to use Akismet or TypePad AntiSpam.
source: www.sixapart.com/blog/2008/05/typepad-antispam-whats-good-fo.html
Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports.
The emails begin by complaining about the rising cost of gas and then direct the reader to a website, with the promise the “product” will save the user 70 cents per gallon. The spam also mentions this gas saver was highlighted on news channels and online videos.

