On Oct 19, 2006, at 4:34 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: > Would anyone be awfully upset if I removed the DNS blacklist based > spam checking for the time being? I want to try and pluginize the > various spam detectors so that it's easier to configure the sort of > thing you want (and probably to configure the default published state, > etc).
I'd say don't break what's working until you have a replacement that works at least as well. That's what SVN branches are for. > The problem I have with the RBL stuff is that DNS lookups can take an > age, and we're really not remotely threadsafe at this point, so it's > not something that can really be backgrounded that effectively. Have you looked into using BackgrounDRb to do run the long tasks? You could easily run a worker to do the DNS lookup and complete the posting in a separate process. That might be good to incorporate into the Akismet check too, since that can take a long time as well. > Once I've got the plugin approach sorted, it shouldn't be too hard to > add RBL checking back in or to write a *spit* CAPTCHA system. KittenAuth! http://www.kittenauth.com/ -- Josh Susser http://blog.hasmanythrough.com _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
