Akismet – The Solution to Blog Spam?

Posted on October 25, 2005 by cgonyea

Matt, the famous creator of WordPress, has announced a new way to prevent blog spam called Akismet.

It sounds like every comment on a blog is sent to a central server, checked to make sure it isn’t spam, and then either rejected or approved. The idea sounds really interesting and worth trying out, so I just installed it here. Combined with Bad Behavior (which is still needed according to its author), this should be very interesting to watch.

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3 Responses to Akismet – The Solution to Blog Spam?

  1. Matt says:
    October 26, 2005 at 12:15 am

    Thanks for checking it out. :)

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  3. IO ERROR says:
    October 26, 2005 at 8:30 am

    Still needed for a wide variety of reasons, a few of which I disclosed, and a few of which I didn’t. Yet. :)