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Mollom Architecture - Killing Over 373 Million Spams At 100 Requests Per Second
- pan69 16y agoVery interesting read. I've used Mollom in the past and found it to be a very easy plug-and-play solution to fight spam.
- tedunangst 16y agoBoth here and Mollom's homepage make a big deal about accuracy (though they call it efficiency), but only talk about spam accuracy. If spam is really 90% of the inputs, it's pretty easy to have skewed stats, so I'm curious (suspicious) what their accuracy is for legit messages. How many false positives? i.e., a classifier as simple as "return (random() % 10000 < 5)" will mark 99.95% of spam as spam.
- nowarninglabel 16y agoAs a heavy user of Mollom, I can say anecdotally that it performs well, but I don't have stats for you, would be cool if Dries could provide some.
- mcantelon 16y agoThis company was started by Dries Buytaert, Drupal's BDFL.
- LiveTheDream 16y agoRequisite: http://xkcd.com/810/ http://xkcd.com/810/