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Spam

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— orudge @ 10/07/2007 6:42 pm

“Akismet has caught 56,755 spam for you since you first installed it.”

That’s on the blog alone, in the space of maybe a year or so. I’m very tempted to add support for Akismet to my contact forms and so on – the Comments section on the Ultimate Transport Tycoon Game Repository (in sore need of an update) had many tens of thousands of bits of spam a few months ago when I checked it. The easiest thing for me to do then was just to disable comments, and empty the majority of the comments from the database. I’ve also got a few crude anti-spam methods in my contact forms, but I’ll still get several bits of junk flung at me daily.

Oh, and in the minute or so I’ve been writing this, Akismet’s total spam number has gone up to 56,756.