Akismet back in the saddle
A while ago, I had to give up on Akismet because of some issues I was having. Today I reenabled it and things have gone pretty well so far. It’s let through two legitimate comments and it’s stopped two pieces of spam.
I won’t really declare it a victory until it stops the next quick spam flood (my spam seems to come in waves for the most part). But this is definitely looking much better. It’s looking so good that I went ahead and deleted all of the old spam I still had in the comments table (I was saving it in case I could use it for some Bayesian filtering).