What’s up with Akismet?
Lately Akismet has been letting through a LOT of spam comments. I don’t know what changed on their end (if anything), but the change has been pretty dramatic on my end. Normally Akismet is pretty good about handling comment spam for me, but lately it seems like I’m having to go back and remove a half dozen comments, or more, each day.
May 12th, 2007 at 12:53 am
Is Akismet the spam filter for Yahoo! Mail or an independant filter?
My Gmail has been attacked by spam from other Gmail addresses lately, although they do seem to have stopped the last few days.
May 12th, 2007 at 7:22 am
I’ve been noticing similar behavior… I have upwards of three hundred spam coming into the comment queue DAILY! This is a stark change from months ago when I had a sum-total of NONE.
I thought, at first, that it was possibly that I had managed to stay under the radar of the spam trolls, but a quick check of the spam queue showed that wasn’t the case… I also took a few minutes to scope-out whether there was a substantive change in the content of the spam, but that doesn’t seem to be the case either.
If you make any earth-shattering discoveries as to the cause, let us know with a follow-up blog entry…
-C
May 12th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
David, Akismet is software for blocking spam in your blog comments.
C.J., yeah…my experience is similar. From no comment spam let through to several a day and it’s been pretty persistent over the last week or so.