Sep
44 Spam Caught in the Act
Well I guess I’ve hit the big time. I came to post to my blog and found 44 instances of spam waiting for me to give the final Whap! and send them off into oblivion.
I’m using Askiment, the spam filter that came with WordPress. I’ve been doing a lot of research lately into the plug ins I’ve been using and promoting and I am finding out lots of interesting stuff. Did you know that Askimet runs comments through their server? Yup, they have a blacklist and if a commenter is on it, their comments don’t get through. That’s a good reason to make sure you are the one who makes the final decision as to what is spam and what isn’t.
If you don’t like that idea, there’s another choice, SpamKarma2. It decides what is spam and what isn’t based on the criteria that you set up.
I’ve used them both, sometimes at the same time, lol. They both do their job, which is catching spam.
