I’m just wondering why my Akismet spam blocked count was reset several weeks ago. I had over 33,000 spam blocked back in January 30th, 2007. Prior to that I had over 22,000 spam blocked back in December 27th, 2006.
Now, my count is at a lowly 12,533. Does anyone have an explanation as to why these [...]
I have noticed that spam is now all over del.icio.us. Very sad and disappointing. I had the same feeling when blogs started getting spam comments two years ago. I’m not sure what del.icio.us uses to combat spam. Maybe, it temporarily stopped for the time being as Akismet is known to do every once in a [...]
Read More | No CommentsHere’s a good article about spam from Information Week. Her last point was eye opening to me. She makes a very solid point.
Don’t open spam. Many pieces of spam contain HTML code which will open a connection to a Web server operated by the spammers. When you connect, you have verified that you opened [...]
The following text is dynamically generated by the Akismet Spam Count Plugin. The Sidebar also displays the latest Spam Count. I’m just amazed by the number of spam comments generated against blogs. My count is miniscule compared to the more popular blogs out there.
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