is running here. I have – at this time – deactivated the superb SK2 to give Akismet a fair crack. Reading a couple of posts a few hours ago, at http://boakes.org the mention is made of the spammers hammering the server(s) that the Akismet lives on in an effort to kill it – or at least stun it. I have no idea if this is a real possibility, but given that Poker company shares are still rising and the card game/chips etc are still being bought in the shops this is a huge business. Would the hammering just move overseas ? I don’t know. What I would like though is for something to monitor the state of the Akismet server and at the first sign of trouble / delay / non-ping / whatever to then switch SK2 back in. Thinking about it, I cannot recall any plugin being able to switch another plugin on/off – why ? Can it not be done ? It would be amazing if that could happen – a 3-tiered defence.
And I finally got SSX on Tour. “I Rule!” 🙂
I can’t see any technical reason why one plugin shouldn’t be able to enable or disable another. The list of currently active plugins can be retrieved using
$current = get_settings('active_plugins');and the list can be updated usingupdate_option('active_plugins', $current);.At the moment, if the Akismet server is unreachable, the comment will simply go into the moderation queue. What should happen is for it to come back later, when the server comes back up, and try sending those comments through again.
It would seem that Calvin Chu is busy here Mark. turn SK2 back on
akismet relieved of duty.
SK2 re-employed.
5 spams through.
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Mark, for some strange reason I got 3 more Subscribed comments in my email re the Moaom sweets post you made. Again from Calvin Chu. Strange as I never made a post on that subject nor subscribed to comments.
Very strange indeed.