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[ Bryper.com] Shutting down commenting spam: Since activating the plugin on Friday, Akismet has netted all 24 spam comments coming into the blog and has successfully let pass all legitimate comments. A 1.000 batting average in the first 72 hours!

[Chip’s Quips] Blogging platform does matter: Blogging platform does matter June 12th, 2006 by sterling Randy Charles Morin posts a grid of blogging platforms and features. He then asks, “Which platforms do you think I’m missing?

 [Angry 365 Days a Year] A 100% Guaranteed Solution to Spam: Massive distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks credited to a loser spammer known as "Pharma Master" took down Blue Security 's server along with Tucows, TypePad blogs and a hell of a lot of other sites. Blue Security shut up shop after this (although there's some grey area surrounding what really went on and the motivations behind everything) saying they didn't want to be responsible for such massive disruption to the internet at large.

 [Angry 365 Days a Year] A 100% Guaranteed Solution to Spam: Massive distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks credited to a loser spammer known as "Pharma Master" took down Blue Security 's server along with Tucows, TypePad blogs and a hell of a lot of other sites.

 [Graphics by Greg] Akismet and the Zend Framework: Inspired by Akismet is my Hero on blog.phpdeveloper.org and by the fact that Akismet has already stopped several thousand spam comments on my own Wordpress blog, I decided to put together an Akismet class using the Zend Framework (resulting in this being PHP 5 only). For those of you who don't know, Akismet is a web service that you can send comments to and they'll let you know whether or not they think it's spam.

 [Boy in the bands] Moving to WordPress ideas: I’ve been pestering him on his blog about moving from MovableType for a while, and now that he’s been plagued by more comment spam, I can imagine the pressure is heightened.

[Akismet.com] Download « Akismet: You don't have to do anything to configure Akismet besides entering your API key, just activate and relax. However you do need at least WordPress version 2.0 or above for everything to work.

 [Blogherald.com] » Akismet publishes Blog Spam stats The Blog Herald: more blog ...: Stephen - Akismet removes the duplicate spam comments so while you might have received 30 spam comments if there were only 6 different versions then you will only see 6 in the managent area.

 [Computerworld.com] Akismet blog spam statistics - Computerworld Blogs: This brief white paper from Pund-IT analyst Charles King evaluates the EMC CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale series””the latest generation of EMC's CLARiiON networked storage solutions. It highlights the advantages of the CLARiiON UltraScale architecture and describes the various models available””from entry-level to high-end.

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