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Proof spammers are no good

By Bryan - Posted on 14 September 2006

A few months ago, I posted that I use Akismet in both Drupal and Wordpress. Akismet is a spam filtering service that can be used in content management systems via plug-ins and modules. The Akismet plugin ships with Wordpress 2, but some setup is required.

While visiting my Wordpress site I noticed the specific number of comment spams the Akismet filter had caught so far and made sure I took a screenshot. The image below was taken by me and I assure you that no altering of the photo was done. I'll let you be the judge whether you agree that spam through site comments represent the evil the number shown implies.

 

Screen shot of Akismet Filter in Wordpress 2.x

 

I do use Akismet to filter out the spam that is posted through comments here at CMS Report. As most of you know by now, my content mangement system of choice for this site is Drupal. The Akismet module for Drupal is now at version 1.1.2 and available at phpMiX.org (Open Source experiments).

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#1 Like that Idea

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on September 15, 2006 - 2:00am.
Nice to see Wordpress and Drupal in the same sentence instead of Wordpress versus Drupal. Can't we all get along? :-) Anyway...surprised no URL was given for the Wordpress site mentioned in the post. Here it is: http://likethatidea.com/

#2 Out of Moderation

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Submitted by Bryan on September 22, 2006 - 9:33pm.

While this comment was from last week, I put it in moderation for a week. I didn't want it to skew some stats I was hoping to collect in comparison between this site, CMS Report, and Like that Idea.

Like that Idea was meant to be a blog for both my wife and I to share posts. However, she found that blogging was not as much fun as spending time with our son. Who can blame her!

Bryan

#3 By pure coincidence, I

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Submitted by Grugnog (not verified) on September 15, 2006 - 3:54pm.
By pure coincidence, I spotted exactly the same thing in my Gmail 2 days ago! http://xs106.xs.to/xs106/06375/666.png That makes 2 examples - I think we have a pattern :)
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About this CMS Enthusiast

Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch. Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government.