November 5th, 2008 by Sarah King
In the first real test of Akismet’s flexibility it now needs to learn Russian. For the last few days the flow of spam has been consistent – and uncaught.
It’s hard to imagine that many Russians are reading this blog but the link back to the site is worth something and there must be naive webmasters out there who approve this stuff.
It’ll be interesting to see how many days it takes for Akismet to learn Russian and start removing this stuff from my queue.
Tags: akismet, russia, spam
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October 26th, 2005 by Sarah King
I took a rare look at the dashboard of my WordPress blog and saw that Matt Mullenweg was looking for beta testers for a new spam blocking tool. I was getting hammered by spammers and they were driving me mad so I emailed him and found myself accepted.
Akismet is the end result of that beta testing – and it’s awesome. I’m actually getting less spam as a result at the spammers can see that their efforts are going nowhere! Phew. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: akismet, automattic, beta, blog, false-positives, Matt-Mullenweg, ping, spam, webservice, wordpress
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It’s hard to imagine that many Russians are reading this blog but the link back to the site is worth something and there must be naive webmasters out there who approve this stuff.