[IMC-Tech] Spam attack! Help with dadaIMC

[Chuck]

Jesus Christ, I fucking hate spammers. I never thought that the biggest 
threat to the open Internet would be spammers, not government or 
corporation censorship. It seems that I'm paying for the mistake of 
using free software for so many of my projects--the comment spammers are 
a constant headache and I can't make any headway on projects.

Does anybody know if the current version of dadaIMC has any anti-spam 
features? The Kansas City Indymedia website is being splogged right 
now--we'e getting around 20 spams/hour. I know that the software needs 
to be upgraded, but I haven't had any time. I'm going to ask another of 
our techies to do an upgrade with Stefani.

I have a request for those of you who write free software. Can you 
please add a few tweaks to the software so some of us can mass delete 
spam comments easier? WordPress does this the right way. The version of 
dadaIMC we're using requires mutliple steps to delete spam comments. You 
can only flag a maximum of ten comments and the flagging requires 10 
clicks. Whenever you list a bunch of records in a database and provide 
checkboxes, please add a feature so an admin can "select all." Even 
better would be a feature where you could toggle how many records are 
displayed on a page.

Thanks.

Grumpy rad geek,

Chuck Munson
KC Indymedia