I’ve installed the blogspam WordPress plugin on controlyourself.ca and openmicroblogging.org, and it’s already caught about half a dozen spammy comments. It seems to be working really well, which I’m happy about.

I hope that as the software and the service matures, it continues to be aligned in goals with the Franklin Street Statement. I think there’s a great opportunity, with a shared service, to do distributed spam detection, either with Bayesian spam filtering or a fuzzy checksum service like DCC or Vipul’s Razor. If this happens, it’s going to be pretty important to make that accumulated data freely available.

I’m looking forward to the growth of this project, increased sophistication of the checks, and more plugins for other Free Software Web projects. And I hope we can get it installed here at autonomo.us, too!