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A comment on Apple's Ping Overrun with Spam. Parent comment

Re:Apple's Ping Overrun with Spam by CamperBob on Friday September 03, 2010 @09:55PM (#1661759)
What's the difference between email spam and comment spam, exactly? Why don't online forums use Bayesian filtering to get rid of comment spam?
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Re:Apple's Ping Overrun with Spam by mishmash on Friday September 03, 2010 @10:56PM (#1661870)
I haven't followed SpamAssassin in several years, but have any startups ever tried running their comments through it?

As you point out, it seems like many of their rules for emails would apply equally well to blog comments.

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Re:Apple's Ping Overrun with Spam by mkr-hn on Saturday September 04, 2010 @12:58PM (#1662970)
Doesn't Akismet work the same way as gmail's filter?
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