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[NerdChic.Net] Home for a Busy Bee Weekend: It’s been rather a while since I blogged, but not much happened on the German side - the only thing of any real note was that I had a trial thing in the language lab, and it went really well - so I have a meeting tomorrow morning to sort out when I’ll be working there and so on.

 [Lunacy Unleashed] Permalink: […] On Sunday last, I installed WordPress 2.02 and re-installed the tables in the database, but without the databases for the spamblocker plugins which I previously had installed, Spam Karma 2 and Bad Behaviour: reason was I had spent hours trying to restore the database and something went wrong each time, so I decided not to reinstall the SK2 and BB tables. Whether that helped or not I did get a successful install of WP2 and my old posts, categories etc.

 [Weblogger.ch] Akismet: Lors de la migration vers WordPress 2.0 béta, je n’ai pas ajouté le plugin Spam Karma pour crainte d’une incompatibilité avec la nouvelle version. En explorant toutes les options et les plugins installé par défaut, j’ai vu que le plugin Akismet était présent dans la liste.

 [Caught in the World "Wild" Web » Protecting your Blog from Spam] Protecting your Blog from Spam: Once again, though SK2 effectively blocks most of the spam, it does struggle when a spammer personally enters the comment on your blog. On the surface it may appear rather innocent but infact is just another spammer in disguise pointing links to his site.

 [Lorelle on WordPress] Mystery Solved: Introducing Akismet Comment Spam... : Matt also hints that this is the first of some neat benefits for Wordpress.com bloggers. I can only imagine the possibilities, though many would be happy with more control over content design and style and more Theme choices, which will come when the WordPressMU program running wordpress.com becomes more stablized and more WordPressMU Themes become available.

 [Unknowngenius.com] Dr Dave » Blog Archive » Introducing Spam Karma: For our more tech oriented friends, here are a few more insights on the rather complex process used by Spam Karma to decide what’s spam and what’s not. Each of the following filter is given a weight varying on many factors, ranking from user-controlled values (e.g.: after how many days is a post “old”?) to the credibility that can be given to a test (e.g.: a missing header is less important than a blacklisted IP).

 [Wordpress.org] Spam? Read this. « WordPress Support: There are thousands of zombied computers hammering our servers (BTW, including unbroken URIs of spam sites here the way someone did on another thread simply gives the slime more Google-exposure) all over the world. Since I root my box, I can add huge blocks of China, Korea, and other countries to the firewall, but although it's slowed the tide, no one could block every zombied Windoze machine that this moron controls.

 [Quickonlinetips.com] Quick Online Tips » Akismet & Spam Karma Wordpress Plugins Stop ...: […] In another instance, I activated the Akismet anti comment spam Wordpress plugin on this site, and it required an API key to activate it, which could only be obtained when I created a Wordpress.com account. […]

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