Targeting Spam > My experiences with Defensio - Decision made

Blogging about stuff[Blogging about stuff] The conclusion is that i am totally convinced of Defensio doing a great job filtering spam, and therefore i will keep all the installations of the plugin i made running and let Akismet rest in peace. I just love Defensio for being that efficient, having a very well structured user-interface which helps you identifying spam and false negatives/positives plus it has got a few more excellent features, such as the statistic section on the Defensio Homepage as shown in the screenshot

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