Re: [libreoffice-website] Ask site: Canning our SPAM problem

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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