Five Today – Akismet Is Not Working

leighm · Member · Jul 2, 2006 at 3:05 pm
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These comments are easily identifiable as spam and akismet is not working.
podz · Member · Jul 2, 2006 at 3:13 pm
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Nearly a million spams caught today. You would certainly know if it was not working.

Please bear in mind that the spammers are constantly changing their attacks and Akismet has to learn. That takes a bit of time.

Mark as spam.
podz · Member · Jul 2, 2006 at 3:16 pm
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If akismet was switched off, you would be swamped.
100’s of spams. A day.

5 may be more than you want, but it’s a tiny tiny fraction of what you would get.
leighm · Member · Jul 2, 2006 at 4:15 pm
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deny from 147.202.52.178

It could be that simple…
podz · Member · Jul 2, 2006 at 4:34 pm
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And how many users would that also block?
If we do one IP, why not another?

Please keep this in perspective.
From when I posted that comment above to now Akismet has stopped fifteen thousand spams.

.htaccess blocks are not an answer. They will not be used.
vivianpaige · Member · Jul 2, 2006 at 5:13 pm
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podz – you guys are doing a great job.
nosysnoop · Member · Jul 3, 2006 at 2:10 am
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I read that Bill Gates gets like a million spam a day!
livingjourney · Member · Jul 3, 2006 at 3:02 am
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Podz… I think you and the other wordpress guys are doing a wonderful job.

I for one have been extemely happy with wordpress. I can’t believe how much better it is here than blogger. I get a lot more feedback from my blog at wordpress than my blogger one.

This post is just a pat on the back for wordpress!!!

Cya

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nosysnoop · Member · Jul 3, 2006 at 4:22 am
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A friend of mine the other day said that Blogger sent out emails saying most of the problems are now fixed and telling people to now come back. HAHAHAHA !!
drmike · Member · Jul 3, 2006 at 3:49 pm
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deny from 147.202.52.178

Beginning to think 147.202. would be more like it. I’ve been getting reports from that entire block with no response. Looks like Team Technologies is black hat.

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