Spam Free Communication and Blogging

I am sure that you have heard about the notion of RSS feeds. If you are a blogger, you are certainly familiar with the term. Within a blogging community, RSS editing is essential in order to avoid its categorizing as RSS spam. For those who are not yet familiar with the term, RSS (Really Simple [...]

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Akismet: 25 Billion Pieces of Spam

We reached a big milestone today: Akismet caught its 25 billionth piece of spam. We’re now detecting spam at a rate of around 40 million comments a day. We’d love to do even more. If you know of a blog, forum or social network that needs some help filtering spam, please let them know we’re [...]

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Dev Blog: How to Keep WordPress Secure

A stitch in time saves nine. I couldn’t sew my way out of a bag, but it’s true advice for bloggers as well — a little bit of work on an upgrade now saves a lot of work fixing something later. Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of [...]

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Akismet: Akismet 2.2.1 — Now With Stats!

If you upgraded to Akismet 2.2, you likely noticed a cool new feature: Akismet stats. We’ve now released Akismet 2.2.1, which includes a few bug fixes. Akismet stats track your comment metrics, including missed spam, false positives (Akismet thought it was spam, but you disagreed), and Yummy Pie, which displays your ham vs. spam count [...]

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