Akismet.com
I’ve been a beta user of the Akismet plugin for a while now, and I’m happy to say that it has been, bar none, the most effective anti-spam tool I’ve ever used with WordPress.
Go get it.
Now.
Why are you still here?
Shoo!
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Eric said,
on October 25th, 2005 at 11:43 pm
Okay, okay, I’m going already. Oh, yes. It is nice.
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Miklb’s Mindless Ramblings » Akismet.com said,
on October 26th, 2005 at 12:33 am
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Matt said,
on October 26th, 2005 at 1:12 am
Thanks again for testing things. :)
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MacManX said,
on October 26th, 2005 at 12:52 pm
Since you have given Akismet your approval, I may consider enabling it alongside Bad Behavior. Thanks, Craig!
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Craig said,
on October 26th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
@James,
Dude, I totally shut off BB and haven’t had a complaint! -
MacManX said,
on October 26th, 2005 at 9:55 pm
Michael does make a good point for running Bad Behavior alongside Akismet.
The one anti-spam plugin which Akismet will not make redundant is Bad Behavior. There are several reasons for this. Bad Behavior is a first line of defense, stopping spammers before they can read your site at all, waste your bandwidth, or drop junk in your database. This is especially important for self-hosted sites, or sites hosted on dedicated or virtual dedicated servers, where CPU time and bandwidth are precious. Like most other anti-spam plugins, Akismet does not and cannot conserve its users’ bandwidth, CPU and disk usage from a spam attack. Bad Behavior does, meaning it will continue to be an integral part of most people’s anti-spam arsenals.
You can read more of this in his comprehensive review of Akismet: error.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/automattic-kismet/
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Craig said,
on October 27th, 2005 at 11:12 pm
@James,
Sounds good to me…I’ve reactivated BB and I’ll be happy if I never see a goddamn spam comment again! :^)
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