That's strange. That's what I'm going to do. A contact page where I
invite people to leave comments to contact me.

Disqus can then take care of the spam problem.

Only minor problem is that until I delete the comment, a private
communication may be exposed to the world.

On Dec 5, 3:44 am, Arthus Erea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have actually fantasized that I might write a plugin which actually  
> stores contacts as "comments" – thus giving you access to the same  
> moderation tools as used for regular comments.
>
> I'll look into doing this, probably as an update to my AlienContact  
> plugin.
>
> Rick, that looks like a good job. The only potential problem I could  
> see is spamchecker plugins checking for additional info values which  
> wouldn't be set in your situation. I can't see any reason this would  
> happen, so your solution seems to be completely sufficient.
>
> On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:22 PM, rick c wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've checked in a first cut at hooking spamchecking plugins through
> > jambo. It's been tested with spamchecker, and should work with both
> > defensio and mollum. If it's broken or can done better, don't hesitate
> > to say so, (or fix it :) ).
>
> > Rick
>
> > On Dec 4, 7:19 pm, "Balazs Koren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> looking forward to see a solution too. I'm having the same problem  
> >> aswell. I
> >> thought as I mentioned in the previous mail, if there is a  
> >> customizable
> >> security question, then it may help:
> >> For example: What's the real name of the guy writing this blog?
> >> A spam robot won't ever answer it, readers will.
>
> >> But a built in spamchecker would solve the spam problem more  
> >> elegantly. :-)
>
> >> Balazs
>
> >> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:33 AM, rick c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
> >> wrote:
>
> >>> I've lately started to run into the same situation. Ah. The price of
> >>> success. :)
>
> >>> I've been looking at a way to integrate Jambo with Habari's
> >>> spamchecker plugin, but haven't done so, yet. I'd hate to have to
> >>> duplicate spamchecker's code in Jambo. Spamchecker, defensio, and
> >>> mollum all use the same hook to check for spam, so we may be able to
> >>> capitalize on this.
>
> >>> Rick
>
> >>> On Dec 4, 5:26 pm, "Balazs Koren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>> Maybe a captcha or a security question would solve the problem...
>
> >>>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Michael Harris
> >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> >>>>> 2008/12/4 Andy C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >>>>>> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> >>>>>> Habari has finally arrived. After months of reassuring  
> >>>>>> inactivity and
> >>>>>> no contact whatsoever, I am now getting inundated with 10 emails
> >>> daily
> >>>>>> originating from my blog contact form.
>
> >>>>>> Unfortunately, a slim majority are enquiring about Habari and my
> >>>>>> wonderful site.
>
> >>>>>> The majority are urging me to indulge in, err, various activities
> >>>>>> involving donkeys.
>
> >>>>>> I am using the Jambo plugin. Is there an alternative that at  
> >>>>>> least
> >>>>>> attempts to filter spam (> 1 link for example).
>
> >>>>> I don't believe there is a spam filtering alternative (I'm sure
> >>>>> someone will pipe up if I'm wrong). I suggest opening a ticket.
> >>>>> Someone clever may be able to integrate it with one of the  
> >>>>> existing
> >>>>> spam plugins.
>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University
> >>>>>http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog
> >>>>> IRC: michaeltwofish #habari
>
> >>>> --http://kobak.org
>
> >> --http://kobak.org
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