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October 23rd, 2006 2:55:22 pm pst by Sterling Camden

Nah, my lucky day was when I converted to WordPress and started using Akismet.

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Comment by Yvonne

At my rate, I’ll be reaching that by the end of the month :(

 
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Comment by sterling Subscribed to comments via email

You use Akismet too, right, Yvonne? Many false positives? I’ve only had a couple.

 
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Comment by Yvonne

Yesterday I had two spam get through on a couple of old posts, but other than that, it’s a lifesaver. :)

 
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Comment by sterling Subscribed to comments via email

Same here, Yvonne. Probably less than 1 in 1000 spomments actually make it to a post.

 
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[...] Randy’s State of the Splogosphere, Part IV: “Comment spam is completely out of control”. Agreed. It took more than five months for Akismet to catch my first 10,000 spam comments, but now it has captured another 10,000 in just over a month. Comment spammers can be a lot more sneaky, because unlike email spam, they don’t care if you click on the links. The links are just designed to acquire Google juice. [...]

 
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