Akismet - The Solution to Blog Spam?
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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Akismet - Comment Spam Killer
This website - like any website that allows readers to submit comments - receives comment-spam, usually advertising medicines, gambling, or other vices.
I’ve been trialling a new anti-comment-spam plugin since mid September. It’s called …
Still needed for a wide variety of reasons, a few of which I disclosed, and a few of which I didn’t. Yet.