| | 1 | BOINC message boards may occasionally suffer from atacks from spammers. In order to help moderators deal with unwanted messages, anti-spam system from [http://www.akismet.com/ akismet.com] can be used. |
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| | 3 | It is disabled by default; when enabled, every time a forum post are made a remote database at akismet.com is checked to see if the message is spam. If Akismet reports that the message is spam, it is blocked, notifying the user on screen. |
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| | 5 | == Enabling Akismet == |
| | 6 | In order to use Akismet anti-spam system, you have to acquire a free API key (12 character alphanumeric string). You can get the key by registering for a [http://www.wordpress.com/ WordPress.com] user account. The API key will be emailed to you after you register. |
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| | 8 | ''Note: If you are a commercial entity or if you are making more than $500 from your website, please get a commercial key instead.'' |
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| | 10 | Once you have the key, you have to add a new tag to your config.xml to enable the system: |
| | 11 | `<akismet_key>1234567890ab</akismet_key>` |
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| | 13 | To test if the system is working, create a user with name "''viagra-test-123''" and try creating a new thread. Akismet should block the message (this is an official test string). |
