Some days ago in this blog entry I explained that a spammer was filling another entry with spam comments. It was the first spambot to target this blog, and I blocked it with an IP address filter. Both Brainstorm and Marc Pous suggested, after reading the blog entry, that I should install Akismet instead of blocking individual IP addresses, which is an approach that takes way too much time. Akismet (automatically) analyzes every comment that is posted to akismet-enabled blogs, and can it prevents spam from being published. Instead, spam is isolated and the site admin can review it, just in case that it makes a mistake.
Akismet works very well for me. As of now, it has already blocked 192 comments in less than three days, and it has never had a single false positive (where it would have marked a legitimate comment as spam) or a false negative (failing to identify a spam comment as such).
For now all the spam I’ve been receiving is in form of links to online casinos. I guess the recent poker-related entries have attracted spambots to my site.
I’m very thankful to my friends for having pointed me to Akismet :)
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it’s a pleasure to share the knowledge !
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