Well, the Akismet module has been released and announced today and I'm just getting some food for testing thanks to a spammer who decided to bomb this site for a while. If you (spammer) read this I would like to thank you again for that... not only because Akismet worked like a charm, but also because you have made me think...
Ok, I decided I'll finally enhance the moderator panel to convert it into a form so it will be possible to operate on several items at a time (to remove spam or simply to correct false positives sending information back to akismet). I can actually do it by a simple code snippet now, but probably akismet module users would love to see this, besides getting advantge of the current cron functionality that may remove detected spam automatically, so... expect that soon. ;-)
But that's not all... what if I add an option to generate a delay (or a ban) when spam is detected, before sending the response to the spammer? Well, they may not need to wait, so... what if I add this delay (or ban) to all requests to posts made by known spammers? I'm not thinking about permanent actions, just a measure to prevent from getting attacked by spambots. For permanent actions, there are other options such as .htaccess bans, Drupal access rules, the troll module and so on...
If you have ideas on that direction, please share them here... or is it ok as it is?
Another idea...
Yeah, there's at least one more idea...
I'm not thinking about reinventing the wheel by doing on the server what the Akismet Service actually does perfectly, but something else to make the akismet module somehow more efficient. It's about something to minimize resource consumption when you're under a spambot attack, which is something Akismet cannot protect us against...