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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