As I mentioned before, I’m using Akismet as a plugin in my Spam Karma 2 setup, so that it is included as one of several (each partially effective) lines of defense that (when combined) tend to catch most of the spam pretty well.
However, the more I check through my logs, the more surprised I am [...]
(or not, as the case may be — see the end of this article)
This is kind of an old story, but I just heard a discussion about a recent development in it, and remembered I hadn’t talked about it before on this blog.
Some of you may remember a product that was being talked about a [...]
I’m really wondering how Akismet could possibly not catch this as spam:
Luckily I only use it as part of a larger spam prevention system, so it didn’t slip by.
Four spam-free days and counting, since I implemented my new spam prevention system. This is pretty good, especially since Google just recently started indexing my site again (long story, for another time) and that has led to a lot more page views, as well as seemingly more incoming spam attempts.
As you’ve probably noticed if you’ve been reading this blog (or Dan’s) for a while, I’ve been trying out various alternatives for preventing comment spam on my blog, and today I just started a new experiment, which I believe will be very successful.
The two main anti-spam plugins for Wordpress are “Spam Karma 2″ and Akismet [...]
April 17, 2006 – 10:05 am
I’m not too impressed. Since moving to WP2, I thought I’d give akismet a try, since Dan always raves about it, and I was occasionally seeing the odd comment slip through my current SK2 setup.
So, I disabled SK2 and just went with only Akismet for the last couple days, and I still saw one get [...]
October 7, 2005 – 10:14 am
Just wanted to do a quick post about the new spam system I am using: Spam Karma 2. It’s been a while since I looked around at spam plugins, but it was getting pretty bad for a while, and since I haven’t had much time to work on the blog dev stuff that I want [...]
October 6, 2005 – 3:13 pm
until I make it work with the new spam plugin.
Lake Casitas.
In case you didn’t notice, I haven’t been online at all this weekend, since we were camping at Casitas. We went to the water park yesterday, and I got sunburned pretty bad.
Hopefully, you all got a good laugh out of the spam that slipped through the filters while I was away. The fact that [...]
OK, so now I need to block loan and credit card related spam too.
Still, not too shaby - only 8 out of 271 (and counting) for today made it past the filters.