Hello,
thanks a lot for the insight on this and the great summary! I won't jump
in in the current discussion, since others are much more AskBot experts
here. I've told Alex on the phone already that for the wiki, the
QuestyCaptcha did the trick (multiple choice questions), while any other
captcha failed to work - whyever. ;-)
Robinson Tryon wrote on 2013-01-31 01:59:
(1) As a hosted, commercial solution, Akismet is running some
proprietary software stack. So no Free/Libre/Open Source Software love
here.
(2) Akismet is free for (some) personal use, but costs something more
in all other cases[3]. That might be $50/month, $100/month, or they
might just be nice and give us some kind of discount. It's pretty
nebulous here.
Akismet is a legal problem. I did not investigate deeper, but from what
I remember, it means transferring data from the EU into the US. Doing so
requires a very carefully crafted privacy policy and further research
plus precautiouns, and might even be illegal for us to do, making us
subject to a cease and desist letter.
Don't shoot the messenger - I'm not saying this is good, but that's what
I found out...
Here's a short summary (in German) on this:
http://blog.wpde.org/2011/04/20/akismet-und-datenschutz-einwilligung-per-opt-in-notwendig.html
Florian
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