First of all I’m going to start with an apology; sorry for utterly failing in my duty to keep the dust off this place and keep it updated. I’m happy to report that we are still alive and kicking despite what the spammers may claim 
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In the first post in this series I started talking about how the Wordpress service Akismet compares to bbProtection. While the concept behind both services is very similar, the target audience and data structures are quite different. The first major difference that I called out for consideration was the fact that Akismet does not, to the best of my knowledge, have a way to process user registration records. Since for many years phpBB2 board owners were faced with bots that would register and never post this would be a problem.
The bbProtection service is designed by bulletin board users for bulletin board users. The team understands how boards work, and have direct experience with running boards of their own. I personally have been waging the war against spammers on my boards for many years and was a part of the pilot program for the first release. Why am I making a big deal about this?
I am writing this post in anticipation of the question: Why bbProtection? Why not simply write a MOD for phpBB (or insert-board-here) using the Akismet API instead? It’s a fair question, and one that I think should be reviewed. After all, if someone else has already done the hard work, why not reuse it?